Affiliation:
1. University of Saskatchewan
2. Florida International University
Abstract
Templer, Veleber, and Brooner in 1982 claimed that an excess number of injuries occur on nights with a full of new moon. In this note, we show that their claim is based upon trivial differences, on overlapping observations, possible violations of statistical assumptions, a failure to consider confounding between phases of the moon and days of the week when data cover short (6 mo. and 1 yr.) periods of time, and the possibility of an effect due to darkness during new moon nights.
Subject
Sensory Systems,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
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22 articles.
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