On 6/16/2017 12:57 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> 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
>
Now you're picking at nits. I went to school in many different states.
There were children of all races in every school I attended.

You're the one who thinks this discussion needs to be reduced to numbers.

Jill