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In article <6d1akj$h7q@mcmail.CIS.McMaster.CA>, Carl Riehm 
(riehm@mcmail.cis.McMaster.CA) says...
> 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.

I hear you.  The problem is that unless I support my argument by trotting 
out a study or two, I look no better than George "Empty Claims" Wright.  
(George's report had a sample size of two -- his children.  Emotionally 
valid perhaps, but statistically it could be less significant than the 
Australian report, flaws and all.)

Darren