On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 9:38:54 AM UTC-4, Jill McQuown wrote:
> On 6/16/2017 8:52 AM, 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
>
> Nope, we weren't talking about statistics. Merely life experiences. I
> went to a lot of schools (Dad was a Marine, we moved every year or two
> until he retired). I never encountered a friend or classmate who had a
> peanut allergy. Perhaps Cindy has. But is that statistically relevant?

It's not about statistics, as such. It's about expecting that
a small sample matters. People might have been dropping
dead of allergies left, right, and center when we were young,
but because we only knew about 100 people, what we saw is
irrelevant to discussing whether there are more people with
allergies nowadays.

I never saw a black student in my elementary school. Does that
mean that no black children went to school?

Cindy Hamilton