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Are we obsessive?
On May 6, 10:23*pm, Tom Lake wrote:
Actually, the word "unusual" isn't important at all; if you disagree with my editing, then put it back. * Here's my statement, once again: "Statistics can (and do) show that ordinary cycling does not impose any unusual risk of serious head injury, despite propaganda to the contrary." Drop the blathering about hypothesis testing. We know about it already. Instead, look for some data. Tell us, for example, how bicycling and walking for transportation compare regarding the number of serious head injuries per kilometer. From what I've read, cycling is far safer in that regard. Tell us how bicycling compares with other activities regarding serious head injuries per hour activity. From what I've read, it's not significantly different than many things people do with no worry. Tell us how bicycling compares with other activities in head injury fatalities per year. From what I've seen, cycling is fewer than 1%. Those are the points I was considering when I said that bicycling does not impose unusual risk of serious head injury. I can post some numbers, but you'd probably learn by digging them up on your own. Frank, a "sceptic" doesn't spend his every waking hour posting about bicycle helmets. *That's called obsessive behavior. That would be. But I don't know anyone who does that. I do know people who have become interested in various topics, have studied them rather diligently, and who now know much more than most others. Many of those people take part in discussions on those topics. It's not unusual. In fact, it's one of the important ways that knowledge is disseminated. - Frank Krygowski |
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