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Re: "Permanent" DST


From: Carsten Bormann <cabo () tzi org>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 13:32:52 +0100

On 2022-03-16, at 13:26, Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:

 I certainly can't find any references to a massive uptake in kids getting doinked by cars at dark bus stops in that 
70s experiment. 

Of course not.

The game is that at least one kid will die in the time an experiment runs, and the press will latch to that event and 
make a big stink that winter DST is unsafe.
The fact that as many kids would have died without winter DST is not relevant because of availability bias.

That’s why it can’t be an experiment.

Grüße, Carsten


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