Jellineck's Curve (Was Re: reponse to need some advice)

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Apparently Marty did the blackout thing a fair bit, which is why she

pushed it as a symptom.

> IIRC, Jellenick's data came from 60 or so AA members who filed out a

> survey in THE GRAPEVINE, which Marty Mann helped design.

>

> So there was a biased sample and a survey based on the assumptions

of

> a progressive, fatal disease. Many of the notions Jellenick

advanced

> on the basis of this flawed research, such as the prominence given

to

> blackouts, have been refuted by later evidence.