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ArticleSSM - population health2020

Happiness is a warm gun? Gun ownership and happiness in the United States (1973-2018).

Terrence D Hill, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, Andrew P Davis, Amy M Burdette

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Article in SSM - population health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Terrence D HillThe University of Arizona, School of Sociology, Social Sciences Building, Room 427, 1145 E. South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA.
Benjamin Dowd-ArrowFlorida State University, Department of Sociology, 526 Bellamy Building, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA.
Andrew P DavisNorth Carolina State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, 334 1911 Building, Campus Box 8107, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.
Amy M BurdetteFlorida State University, Department of Sociology, 526 Bellamy Building, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA.
Florida State University · USNorth Carolina State University · USUniversity of Arizona · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although there is no empirical evidence linking gun ownership with happiness, speculation is widespread. In this paper, we assess the association between gun ownership and happiness. We use 27 years of national cross-sectional data from the General Social Survey (1973-2018) and logistic regression to model self-rated happiness as a function of gun ownership (n = 37,960). In bivariate and partially adjusted models, we observed that the odds of being very happy were

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GunsHappinessMarriageMental healthWell-being

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PMID31956693
PMCPMC6957840
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