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Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Nov 19 11:54:01 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Nov 18 22:10:51 2015. There was an age cut off in the released version which was 18 years of age. What I stated was that we do not know if there were any other versions of the study they did with a higher cutoff age.The only studies we see are the ones that are released. Do you think that every study conducted is actually published? Only the ones with the results the sponsors are satisfied with are published. If the results are not as expected, studies are redone with slightly different parameters. That's why I take all studies with a grain of salt. When you are young you tend to believe every study, but as you grow older your life experience makes you wiser and more skeptical. Just because a study is claimed to be a random study, doesn't mean it actually is random. If it is a telephone study made to random landline numbers, you have to ask yourself who is more likely to have given up his landline for a cell phone exclusively and would that person be typical of the general population? Or would he or she be more likely to be younger or living alone, or richer or poorer than the general population. Any one answer could make that study not completely random or it may not matter depending on the particular survey. And that is only one example. |
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