XPost: rec.martial-arts   
   From: lawson@NO10909SPAM+dayton.net   
      
   On Fri, 15 May 2009 06:32:54 -0600, hal wrote:   
      
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   > read the fucking article moron.   
      
   Follow your own advice.   
      
      
   >  From our perspective it's summer.  I   
   > correspond regularly with hydro growers in Australia and NZ and they   
   > all refer to December, January, February as "summer".  It all depends   
   > on if you are thinking globally or provincially.  Besides, it's   
   > besides the point.  However you name the seasons the point is suicides   
   > goes way up when it is dark a lot.  THAT is the point.   
      
   Good heavens you're stupid!   
      
   The blasted article THAT YOU KEEP REFERENCING says *EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE*!!!!!!   
      
   The Conclusion clearly states, "The incidence of suicide in southeastern   
   Australia displays a clear seasonal pattern, being positively linked with   
   prevailing levels of sunlight."  The Discussion section clearly states,   
   "Our observation of a strong association between suicide and sunlight   
   hours"  Note that they say, "positively" linked, not "inversely."   
      
   And if THAT is too confusing for you (as most everything is) LOOK AT THE   
   BLINK'N *GRAPH* which clearly shows a nearly identical pattern of suicide   
   rate MATCHING the number of sunlight hours.  In other words, as I've   
   stated several times now, this study shows that, in Australia anyhow,   
   suicides *INCREASE* with the increasing number of sunlight hours and   
   *DECREASE* with the decreasing number of sunlight hours.   
      
   God above!  How can you claim to have read this article and not noticed   
   its primary findings?  You keep thinking that you're being clever or   
   something by claiming S.A.D. and hoping that inverted seasons will prove   
   your point (and failing in that hope) all while simultaneously MISSING THE   
   FACT THAT THIS STUDY CONTRADICTS YOUR SPECIFIC POSITION!   
      
   The point is, this study shows, that suicides go way *DOWN* when it's dark   
   a lot.  THAT is the point.   
      
   (IH)   
      
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