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Geoff R. Casavant

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Wed Aug-31-05 08:45 PM
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31. You supplied your own answer

And I quote: "Not all events are included in this list."

This is an example of the "availability heuristic," where we remember the correlations but not the independent events.

Ask yourself these questions:

1. What disasters occurred when there were no Israel/Palestine talks going on? I'd bet there were many.

and

2. Were there any times when the Israelis and Palestinians were talking, and no disaster cocurred? From your list, I can see right away that Oslo talks are missing.

When you can answer these two questions fully, I expect you will see that the list you mentioned is pure coincidence.

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