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I am not sure if any of you guys have seen this recent study, America's Real Criminal Element: Lead, but maybe it explains why I get so testy these days.....gotta quit using the lead additive!





Another article.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2 ... -epidemic/

My Pinz has a dash sticker that says. "Lead Free" in no less than 3 different languages.
Must be another reason for my behavior.

Paint chips when we were yonger...

westernair wrote:Paint chips when we were yonger...

...or all the siphoning in the seventies!

Mine has a diesel conversion!!! what does that say about me? (other than fuel is very expensive in Europe)

Rick had a lot of time in his hands in 2010.. it's DOJ :idea: & was not a pinzgauer owner

I "love" useless graphs like that. Is there any real link between the two? They aren't even on the same time line- 1937 to 1986 vs 1960 to 2009. Ugghh. Maybe something else has happened to reduce violent crime? Direct link between landing on the moon in 1969 and a drop in violent crime?

87.5% of statistics are made up.

krick3tt wrote:87.5% of statistics are made up.

No , its 86 & 5/3rd %.... it's on the web, and the web is never wrong

Just like this guy is a french model

I "love" useless graphs like that. Is there any real link between the two? They aren't even on the same time line- 1937 to 1986 vs 1960 to 2009. Ugghh.

Did you guys even read the article?

It explains the 23 year difference pretty clearly. I thought it was a pretty interesting correlation, and reasonably well established by the differing time frames within which each area reduced lead-fuel usage.

87.5% of statistics are made up.

Agreed fully, especially on the internet. But that leaves 12.5% as legit, even by your numbers. And of course, we're all just guessing at that percentage. What's that prove?



Having known a friend who likely was exposed to lead at an early age, and who later did exhibit some strange anti-social tendencies not unlike those described in the article, I'd considered his lead exposure for quite some time as a possible influence. FWIW, I think this is a very interesting article.

I made up the 87.5%

Morris,

I made up the 87.5%

Duh! Of course you did! It's the Internet.

undysworld wrote:

Did you guys even read the article?
It explains the 23 year difference pretty clearly. I thought it was a pretty interesting correlation, and reasonably well established by the differing time frames within which each area reduced lead-fuel usage. FWIW, I think this is a very interesting article.

I didn't read the article, just looked at the graph and it struck one of my pet-peeves. Like graphs that don't show a zero and claim "75% increase" or whatever. Why not show the 23 year lag, that would be interesting.