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- From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Effects of the Full Moon
- Message-ID: <6178@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 11:49:13 GMT
- References: <1992Oct27.222702.18649@asl.dl.nec.com> <1992Nov3.113533.8927@edinboro.edu>
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- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- In article <1992Nov3.113533.8927@edinboro.edu> j724664s@edinboro.edu writes:
- >My stepfather is a policeman in Washington Twp. NJ. From his experience there
- >is usually an increase in "radical" behavior during a full moon. i.e.
- >domestic disputes, fights, abnormal behavior, etc.
-
- Sorry, `experience' won't do. There has to be a written record, collected
- in such a way that happenings on each day get equal chance of being
- recorded. If the `recorder' has to judge `radicality' after having
- seen the moon, this equal chance already is compromised.
-
- Even then, it's tricky business. In one research it seemed that more
- accidents happened on full moon, but later it turned out that
- disproportionately many full moons fell on a weekend, and after
- correcting for that the effect was gone.
-
- JWN
-