"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

No, they're not because media reports come from all over.
You need data for the same place and over the same period to be in any way
comparable.

Edward Dolan wrote:

A random sampling of a universe of phenomena is even better
than a sampling from a specific time and place. All I am doing is comparing
different universes.

And thereby rendering the data totally meaningless. You can't compare a cross country trail with a downhill bike park.

You can't compare a city street with a trail.

And, you're not sampling either ... you're collecting every instance you can of one outcome (death or injury) without collecting the rest of the dataset. So, you are committing so many statistical errors that you wouldn't even pass a school-level stats course .. let alone anything more advanced.

The randomness corrects for all of that. That is the beauty of it. It is also why polls must be sufficiently large to have any value. Statistics 101.
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Oh dear Ed. So, the fact that the number one category
requiring Mountain Rescue was "Slip, Trip or Stumble" with 111 of the 433
injuries in the Lake District in 2013 is indicative of a wonderful range of
innovative and 'interesting' new injuries suffered by hikers ?

That number one category is trivial and not worth mentioning,

Why Ed ? It's the most common category of injuries and therefore hardly 'trivial'. Particularly when you remember that these were incidents that were sufficient serious that they required people to call our Mountain Rescue.

You might not be able to walk because of a foot or ankle injury and so need a way out, but these are not serious injuries.

certainly not to be compared with the kind of common accidents that mountain
bikers suffer. Hiker accidents that result in serious injury or death are
interesting. Similar degree mountain biker accidents are never interesting
because they are all the same.

Well then Ed, from the report that I provided, show me the 'interesting' hiker deaths or injuries. The vast majority are from the same causes, every year .. a fact decried by the chairman in his opening remarks.

Trivial injures don’t interest me. Maybe you could make it your mission to bring us reports of the deaths of hikers with all the details at which point I will then tell you wherein the interest lies. Mountain biker injuries and deaths are all the same and therefore uninteresting.

Mountain bikers are barbarians and have no right to be on any trail used by hikers – unless they want to get off their god damn ****ing bikes and walk like everyone else. When they crash and injure themselves, I rejoice! If and when they manage to kill themselves, I say good riddance to bad rubbish! Death to mountain biking!

“Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.”
~ Christina Rossetti (Psalm 24),
from "A Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets"

Mountain bikes have wheels. Wheels are for roads.

Trails are for walking. What’s the matter? Can’t walk?

Ed Dolan the Great
aka
Saint Edward the Great