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Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Mon Nov 11, 2013 1:14 pm
by Мастер
Population?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Mon Nov 11, 2013 5:13 pm
by tubeswell
erections over a lifetime
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Mon Nov 11, 2013 10:15 pm
by Arneb
No to both.
Why would erections fluctuate so wildly over time?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:10 am
by Мастер
For population, the oscillations caused me to think there might be a predator-prey system involved here.
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:39 am
by tubeswell
Arneb wrote:No to both.
Why would erections fluctuate so wildly over time?
They fluctuate wildly in the first part of life, then they suddenly stop just about mid-life-ish, and then you begin to minutely analyse things. Just sayin'.
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 7:57 am
by Arneb
Мастер wrote:For population, the oscillations caused me to think there might be a predator-prey system involved here.
There is, in a way - but I don't think this train of thought will be very intructive to, because the way in which this is a predator/prey system is much too involved.
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:32 pm
by Lance
Okay, then is some kind of pathogen the prey?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 3:57 pm
by Lianachan
Number of deaths from... oh, I don't know. Cholera?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:25 pm
by tubeswell
T-cell activity over a lifetime?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 6:52 pm
by Arneb
Lance wrote:Okay, then is some kind of pathogen the prey?
On the contrary :)
Lianachan, getting warmer...
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:11 pm
by Lianachan
Number of deaths from... oh, I don't know. Measles?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:24 pm
by Мастер
The spike on the right had me wondering if it was influenza (early 20th century), but then I thought the earlier part of the graph probably shouldn't be so high.
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:32 pm
by Lianachan
Мастер wrote:The spike on the right had me wondering if it was influenza (early 20th century), but then I thought the earlier part of the graph probably shouldn't be so high.
I had precisely the same thought. Been trying to think of fatal diseases that are just about, but not entirely, licked these days.
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 9:25 pm
by Arneb
Мастер wrote:The spike on the right had me wondering if it was influenza (early 20th century), but then I thought the earlier part of the graph probably shouldn't be so high.
Very interesting thoughts. The influenza spikes are rarer - really serious epidemics are farther apart, decades, rather than years.
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:15 am
by tubeswell
Polio spikes?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:23 am
by Arneb
Not polio, but you are closing in.
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:42 am
by tubeswell
smallpox
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 12:42 pm
by Lianachan
Malaria?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:03 pm
by Arneb
Not that bad - but worse than what most people would think whn they hear the name of the disease (and therein lies the point).
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:09 pm
by Lance
Jumping Frenchman Disorder?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:32 pm
by Lianachan
...must.....resist......frog's.... legs.....joke......
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:26 pm
by Lianachan
Chicken pox?
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 4:49 pm
by tubeswell
Diphtheria
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 5:52 pm
by Arneb
tubeswell wrote:Diphtheria
Viral...
Re: Guess what the Graph Shows!
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Wed Nov 13, 2013 8:44 pm
by MM_Dandy
Hmmm, that rules out Bubonic Plague as well.
I'll go with herpes.