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WAJGK t1_ivzz4p6 wrote

Reply to comment by Milamber69reddit in The effect of the First World War on names, in France [OC] by bjco

I think the point of this graph is that these children were not being named after living relatives...

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faustianredditor t1_iw1xh15 wrote

Highly unlikely. That's not what the casualty rates of WW1 would look like. The sudden uptick is completely inconsistent with that. Why would you have the same ratio of deceased fathers after one week as after half a year?

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