Lunar effect

[madhacker14]

Do you believe in the existence of "the lunar effect".

Incase you do not know what this is here is a quick brief on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_effect

I personally do not believe in such a retarded thing.
The moon does not cause us to commit crimes
we cause ourselves to commit crimes.

What is your opinion?

 

[friedrichv]

Why would there be such a thing? And Jesus, crimes are committed during night because the robbers would be harder to spot..And umm at full moon, because they'd have a light source?

If it does exist, then it would be pretty damn scary lol.

 

[Personal Jesus]

Disregard my first post. I've deleted it due to it containing too many invalid facts.

A comparison of the amount of criminal activity during each lunar phase was done applying a one-way ANOVA. The results of this study are similar to those of previous studies, which found no significant difference in criminal activity and fire and emergency calls between the full moon phase and the other lunar phases (F(3,52) = .621, p>.05). The means of the criminal activity and crisis calls per day were 40.14 for the waxing phase, 34.36 for the full moon phase, 35.57 for the waning phase, and 38.14 for the new moon phase.

http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/139.asp

 

[waltrulz]

I've noticed (just my observations). Girls tend to have the period around the full moon, People forget how to drive properly on a full moon, people tend to be a little bit short tempered, But this is not a fact tho, girls could have the period anytime, people get in car cashes ever day, and it's not like very one is happy all the time. it just happens more often around a full moon.

 

[gumbawl]

to be honest, crimes are usually planned out before they happen. So i don't believe the moon has any effect whatsoever.

 

[flipscapes]

I've noticed (just my observations). Girls tend to have the period around the full moon, People forget how to drive properly on a full moon, people tend to be a little bit short tempered, But this is not a fact tho, girls could have the period anytime, people get in car cashes ever day, and it's not like very one is happy all the time. it just happens more often around a full moon.

Just an opinion , about the " People forget how to drive properly on a full moon"
maybe be because they get attracted by the moon? If they look at it , it may distract them.

And how did you observe this by the way?

In my honest opinion it doesn't affect anything except the tides.