Peace Vigil and Hurricane Tragedy

On the 21st of September 2004, two events with what one might characterize as opposite valence occurred. An international Peace Vigil was to take place, with apparently hundreds of thousands of participants around the world. At the same time, the continuing hurricane season in the Carribean brought a heavy measure of tragedy to Haiti, where at least 1000 people were reported dead from the effects. In both cases, there was no moment of sharp focus (though vigil organizers proposed a moment of silence at noon, local time). Therefore, the specification for the event was for the full GMT day.

The analysis shows a very strong negative-going trend for most of the day, and the Chisquare of 85786.620 on 86400 df corresponds to a Z of -1.477 and p = 0.930.

Peace Vigil and Hurricane Tragedy


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