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To the Editor: The results of a recent Canadian study call into question Coren's findings that motor vehicle crashes increase by 8 percent following the change to daylight savings time and decrease by 7 percent after the change to standard time.¹ The study extended Coren's analysis, using the same data source. First, data from the days between the Monday preceding the time change and the Monday one week afterward were analyzed. Second, Coren's hypothesis was statistically tested with data from the years 1984 to 1993, to evaluate the significance of any differences obtained.

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