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Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> In article <33A5CCD8.3D01@direct.ca>, Ken Bognar  <kbognar@direct.ca> wrote:
> 
> >Obviously I'm just stating that you put too much faith in statistics
> >when the results are just too hard to gather accurately.
> 
> In fact I don't, and I've examined this issue very carefully. I
> started out in favour of mandatory helmet laws until I did some
> research.
> 
> >My statistics the other way? Well, I personally know 6 people that have
> >wrecked helmets and have proof that they would have been hurt pretty
> >badly without them.  Those are hard facts but not recorded anywhere
> >unlike the stats that you speak of that just don't reflect facts like
> >that.
> 
> Of course they don't; that's anecdoctal evidence, not statistics.
> Given this sort of argument, it's quite obvious that you don't have
> a clue about statistics, and are thus entirely incompetent to judge
> what is statistically good and bad.
Just have to add that my daughter had a serious bike accident a couple
of years ago.  She was wearing a helmet that saved her life as I know it
and lots of tax dollars.  She is not a statistic because no car was
involved.  Talk about twisting statistics!!!
> 
> I think, based on that, we can terminate this argument.
> 
> >I'm not ignoring any evidence at all. I just disregard evidence that
> >doesn't tell the whole story.
> 
> No, you disregard evidence that you don't like.
> 
> cjs
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