From the Financial Times:
Collapsing social trust is driving American gun violence
Mass shootings and high-powered rifles draw most attention, but the reality of most US firearm deaths lies elsewhere
JOHN BURN-MURDOCH
You can tell if an author is serious about statistical correlations with gun homicides by doing a CTRL-F on “black” and “African”—this article doesn’t include any text strings.
It also doesn’t list examples of high and low social trust places in the U.S. Journalists who aren’t trying to jerk your chain (e.g., me) love to cite examples from the top and the bottom of ranked lists.
And low social trust has a notorious history in the social science because the Bowling Alone guy did a well-funded study around the turn of the century and his results turned out to be so politically incorrect that he admitted burying them for a half decade until he could come up with a way to pitch his results that would sound nice:
If you want to know about collapsing social trust, here's my 2007 article "Fragmented Future" about Harvard's Robert D. Putnam's research on its cause -- increasing ethnic diversity -- and his years-long struggle to figure out how to spin his findings:https://t.co/TaGqwHQNS1
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) May 14, 2023
