Re: Bad Trend in War

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 23:49:10 MDT


At 05:46 PM 23/06/00 -0400, Robin wrote:

>The chart: http://abcnews.go.com/media/world/images/peacechart_990531_t.gif
>in
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/peace_warbiology990602.html
>shows a bad long term trend. I sure hope it has changed lately.

I can't access the article, but surely the massive 20th century increase in
proportion of people reaching maturity, or at least getting past infancy,
as a result of hygiene, medical improvements, etc, makes this graph
meaningless?

Damien



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