lies, damn lies, and goats
On the other hand we have published research that is well documented by Evan Marshall and Sanow in two books; Handgun Stopping Power and Street Stoppers. Their work is unbiased and compares most handgun calibers.
Marshal and Sanow's work is in fact well known as misinformation in both the statistics and wound ballistics professions.
I was actually allowed to do an analysis of their results for a term paper in my sophomore stats class at ASU... turns out my Prof was a shooter
It was presented "neat" by myself in class at first (just the data/results/analysis) then the Professor went beyond my piddly attempt, and told the class what the data was actually discussing.
He proved, by statistical analysis, that there was NO data set (even if you included EVERY shooting in the time period they represented) that could have given the results claimed by M&S. That the results so closely matched their hypothesis was surely accidental, he said. The whole class (even the ones that went "ewww" when told we were talking about shooting human beings) snickered at that.
Later in the year, buoyed by his/our success at grossing out the class with shooting people, he presented the Strasbourg Goat data set as well. He restricted himself to showing that the weights of the animals followed no known distribution.
He also aware of, but did not present, information about M&S's financial arrangements/investments... among them a certain manufacturer of low weight/high speed handgun rounds intended for SD.
As my professor pointed out in class, this was serious stuff... people were making potentially life or death decisions on made up data. Not to mention spending taxpayer money arming police based on it.
And if all this isn't enough... ask Marty Fackler what he thinks about it.
Sorry, but M&S's study is and was BS.