On 6/16/2017 9:02 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 8:53:06 AM UTC-4, Cheri wrote:
>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 6:22:55 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 15:09:14 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 08:36:14 -0700, "Cheri" >
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, and JFTR none of them died of "mysterious illnesses" either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Who knows what doctors called it. Maybe not "mysterious illness". That
>>>>>> sounds rather ignorant on the doctor's part. Can't have that.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can tell you for a 100% fact that none of my friends died of anything
>>>>> they
>>>>> ate while young. However, a couple of them did die in auto accidents,
>>>>> and
>>>>> one was hit by a school bus. These days some of them are becoming ill
>>>>> with
>>>>> various maladies, and some have died, but none of us are spring chickens
>>>>> anymore.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know, directly or indirectly, anyone who died of what they ate
>>>> either. Although the uncle of a friend of mine choked to death on a
>>>> fishbone decades ago. To this day, that friend doesn't eat fish with
>>>> bones.
>>>
>>> Honestly, you two. Your circle of friends is not a statistically
>>> significant sample. Anecdote does not equal data.
>>>
>>> As an example, suppose one of your cohort died of anaphylaxis as a baby.
>>> You might never know it happened. It might never have been properly
>>> diagnosed.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>
>>
>> Honestly, you. Did anyone say they were "a statistically significant
>> example?" I simply said...none of MY friends did, I can't speak for your
>> experiences, nor would I want to take exception to them since that would be
>> impossible. On a side note, I'm sure there are a multitude of things in this
>> life that I never knew happened...and that you never knew either.
>>
>> Cheri
>
> Sorry. I consider it meaningless to talk about "In my day,
> nobody had allergies and nobody died of it" on such thin
> data.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>
We're not talking about "data". We're having a discussion. If you want
to gather data, put together a fair sampling of people who grew up in
the 1950's and 60's and ask them if they or any of their friends were
allergic to peanuts. Then put together a group of people who grew up in
the 1980's, 90's and ask them the same questions.

Heck, even airlines have resumed giving out packets of peanuts. For a
while they stopped that, opting for pretzels instead (OMG, might contain
*gluten*!). An airplane is basically an enclosed metal tube with
recirculated air. If so many people were allergic to peanuts it would
stand to reason lots of passengers would have reactions to peanut dust
or whatever. Never seen anything like that.

Not statiscially sound data, obviously. Merely an observation. I've
flown quite a bit.

Jill