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Re: statistics
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Peter L Borst <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:03:33 -0400
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> The figure of 4% as the actual number of dead hives being CCD is very suspect. Where did Dennis V. come up with the number? Actual dead outs are counted. Documented by the CCD working group as CCD is nothing more than a wild guess. 

Nobody stated that these numbers are "documented as CCD". Dennis is interviewed at length in the recent ABJ. He states "while losses have continued around the 30% mark, few of those seem to be CCD as defined early on by our group."

Then he says: "CCD has become the catch-all name for all honey bee deaths ... we need to really start paying attention to the different ways that colonies die. "

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