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Article #32Re: Alberta Rejects MHL
From: Carl Riehm
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00
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In article <MPG.f5cd9cf442541539896a8@news.ea.com>, Darren Stone <dstone@ea.removethis.com> wrote: > >2. If you suffer a head injury on a bicycle, statistically, you have a >25% chance of dying from it. (Robinson, D. An Assessment of the >Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Law in Australia.) Motorists have fully a 19% Every time this topic is discussed, this study is trotted out. As someone who teaches statistics, and who knows how many such studies are seriously flawed (usually by bad statistical analysis induced by preconceptions or desired conclusions on the part of the writer), I just don't believe it. The conclusions in this report defy common sense. And the reasoning is questionable at best. Carl Riehm.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fe616,a4d665648453c70 X-Google-Attributes: gidfe616,public X-Google-Thread: 10e08b,a4d665648453c70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e08b,public X-Google-Thread: f9fae,a4d665648453c70 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9fae,public From: riehm@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA (Carl Riehm) Subject: Re: Alberta Rejects MHL Date: 1998/02/25 Message-ID: <6d1akj$h7q@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA> X-Deja-AN: 328559129 References: <6bfa39$smu@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.980220131919.11500C-100000@vtn1> <34F30780.7790@interlynx.net> <MPG.f5cd9cf442541539896a8@news.ea.com> Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Newsgroups: ont.bicycle,bc.cycling,rec.bicycles.soc