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Speculation Versus Fact: Reply to the Cohens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Leon S. Robertson
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The comment by the Cohens on my article, “An Instance of Effective Legal Regulation” (1976), consists mainly of speculation about the fatality distributions and questions regarding the adequacy of the statistical models that I used to test for deviation from random fluctuation. Such speculation is unwarranted, and particularly so when the issue is public policy affecting human life. A point by point examination of the Cohens' comments indicates that they are without merit.

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Research Article
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Law & Society Review , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , Winter 1977 , pp. 597 - 601
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Copyright © 1977 The Law and Society Association

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