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Glenn E. Meyer · January 1, 2013, 01:16 PM

Sorry, you are wrong.

You are welcome to leave, Foghorn.

PawPaw - that's the point. There is a giant move to empirically based clinical science. In fact, a new journal has just started to concentrate the research.

The Association for Psychological Science has been making this point for several years now.

A very large and well-done meta-anlysis of violence prediction found we did not have good instruments. The FBI sponsored studies of such came to the same conclusion earlier.

Throwing around a term like hoplophobia - implying a true anxiety disorder is fairly useless. So is using the term neurosis in modern parlance when trying to put down an antigun person.

January 1, 2013, 01:16 PM	#5
Glenn E. Meyer Senior Member Join Date: November 17, 2000 Posts: 20,064	Sorry, you are wrong. You are welcome to leave, Foghorn. PawPaw - that's the point. There is a giant move to empirically based clinical science. In fact, a new journal has just started to concentrate the research. The Association for Psychological Science has been making this point for several years now. A very large and well-done meta-anlysis of violence prediction found we did not have good instruments. The FBI sponsored studies of such came to the same conclusion earlier. Throwing around a term like hoplophobia - implying a true anxiety disorder is fairly useless. So is using the term neurosis in modern parlance when trying to put down an antigun person. __________________ NRA, TSRA, IDPA, NTI, Polite Soc. - Aux Armes, Citoyens Last edited by Glenn E. Meyer; January 1, 2013 at 01:22 PM.