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scienceplease
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 Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:16 am Post subject: Jump in traffic fatalities following 9/11 'interesting' |
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http://www.physorg.com/news152803952.html
| Quote: | Psychologist Alexander J. Rothman and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota analyzed records obtained from the US Department of Transportation to see if there was any relation between geographic location and the rate of fatal traffic accidents that occurred in the three months immediately following the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Statistical analysis of the data yielded a number of interesting findings, which are reported in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The authors found that there was an increase in the rate of traffic fatalities in the three months following the 9/11 attacks, but only in the Northeast, the region closest to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. A follow-up analysis showed that there was a significant increase in the rate of traffic fatalities in the months following September 11 in the state of New York. This pattern of findings is consistent with the premise that stress-related reductions in the quality of driving led to a spike in the rate of fatal traffic accidents. |
Stress? Or Hit Squads bumping off inconvinent persons (cf the anthrax microbiologists)? Yet another worrying coincidence. |
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Maybe it was because people just refused to fly = increased traffic. Try not to find a conspiracy where there isn't one.
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| scubadiver wrote: | Maybe it was because people just refused to fly = increased traffic. Try not to find a conspiracy where there isn't one.
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I agree that is a valid theory and a better explaining than the "stress" theory (or mine). Sorry my paranoia is somewhat showing. |
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fish5133
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Jump in traffic fatalities following 9/11 'interesting' |
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Perhaps the fatalities were due to mechanical problems in the vehicles caused by Judy Woods steel disintegrating ray beams.!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:55 pm Post subject: Re: Jump in traffic fatalities following 9/11 'interesting' |
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| fish5133 wrote: | | Perhaps the fatalities were due to mechanical problems in the vehicles caused by Judy Woods steel disintegrating ray beams.! |
Oh ha ha!
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