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> >Sometimes humans have to forget statistics and use their heads.
>
Statistical analysis can be so complicated as to be meaningless.
Scientists have apparently proven that a bee cannot fly.

> >If you are heading towards the ground in mid-air would you prefer to
> >be wearing one?
> 
> But how likely are you to be heading towards the ground in mid air? I once 
> broke my wrist when I fell on a patch of ice, but I don't walk around with 
> wrist protectors. 

A broken wrist will not kill or indeed seriously injure you. Head
injuries are a different matter.

 
> If the down-under stats showed a drastic increase in usage but no decrease 
> in injuries, we must ask *why*. Either head injuries are so infrequent that
> they don't show up in the stats
This is not so as head injuries are a major cause of death in bike
fatalities..

, other factors such as false sense of 
> security come into play,

This has NOT been shown in any of the scientific papers.

 or helmets don't work in the real world (most 
> people don't wear them properly anyway)

I agree that many  people do not wear them properly.
They have been shown to work in the real world if properly worn.
There may be other factors at work in this study that no-one has
thought of. Most studies show benefit.




 What do you think it is?  
> 
> >Have a read of this.
> >http://www.bhsi.org/webdocs/henderso.htm
> 
> Post the relevant bits so that we can discuss it.
> 
It's 35 pages long and it is worth reading all of it. It is very fair
and thorough. I've read the whole lot twice.