[ExI] oooohhh pioneers

[BillK]

On 3/30/10, Post Futurist wrote:
> You can back this up; after the great power failure of '65, and other
> "blackouts" the birthrate ticked up. So tell, say, fundamentalists that,
>  and they will never suggest turning off the electricity again--
> even for half an hour periods.
>
>

Keith

If you want your Digest comments to go into the appropriate thread,
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The Exi-chat volume is not very high currently, so I doubt that the
Digest format is really needed at present and it can cause your
response to come in late after you wait for the Digest to be sent out.

On 3/30/10, Keith Henson  wrote:
>  "As often happens, however, people formed predetermined conclusions
>  and then tried to fit the data to them. The birth rate nine months
>  after the blackout did not show a statistically significant difference
>  from the rate of birth recorded during the same period in any of the
>  five previous years. "
>
>  http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.asp
>
>  Keith