On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:57:56 -0700 (PDT), 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.

Wasn't all that long ago, ~20 years, when most allergies were not
diagnosed, and for the most part allergy symptoms were attributed to
other illnesses... many food allergies were shrugged off with the
hayfevor blanket.

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