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That's a good point. There is

Donal — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:32:26 +0000

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That's a good point. There is no proof that all of these effects haven't converged to force a downward trend, even with countervailing trends like the emergence of crack and meth gangs among the young, and a major recession leading to massive unemployment among the young and old.

I was gonna knock over a bank, right after my nap, but when I woke up, it had already failed.

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moat — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:00:22 +0000

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A lot of things to ponder in

moat — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:05:24 +0000

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A lot of things to ponder in your post.

Maybe the problem is the preponderance of a model where only one model can be the ultimate explanation for why stuff happens.

I see a mistranslation of the notion of "significance" in statistics into the beast of the General Trend; a creature whose arrival is accepted with barely a word of skeptisism from the public and who is given easy access to the trough of policy makers.