Questionaire for a paper Im writing

[Mortblanc]

For some of you that have not been prepping for very long, or only belong to one forum, I would like to clue you in.

About once each year this list, proposed as research for a paper, circulates across the prepper sites in the internet. It is on two other sites I visit right now and this is not the first time I have seen the list. I had not anticipated its circulation in GB!

Consider what is asked and what is not asked. Although no single question is excessively intrusive the total of the implied trend offers more than the sum of the parts.

If you have this, and if you have that and if you have the other what are the chances you have the item/items not being directly asked about? It is simple mathematical and logical deduction.

3+2+?=7

If you have buckets and if you have unscented bleach and if you have a hand cranked radio the chances that you also have XYZ hidden away increases to the point of probable cause.

Now this may just be some academic gathering data for research, but it is an ongoing survey that has repeated for several years, which may indicate some university in engaged in a long term project or the same professor assigns the same paper over and over again for his own research. (Many undergrads do not realize they are used to gather data and do the foot work for their profs, who latter write books and make big bucks using their research.)

However, in the U.S. the possession of the total list and the items the list infers but does not directly ask about, borders on achieving a ranking on the terrorist watch.

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Yes acquiring supplies and the strategic placement of those supplies is on that list of suspicious activities.