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Helmet Poll: First Hand Experience
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:50:42 -0700, SMS
said in : There's your proof, "kids have been observed." Indeed. Mok et. al. wrote the paper. Children wearing helmets take more risks. Guy -- May contain traces of irony. Contents liable to settle after posting. http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk 85% of helmet statistics are made up, 69% of them at CHS, Puget Sound |
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Helmet Poll: First Hand Experience
In uk.rec.cycling wrote:
Chris Malcolm wrote: In uk.rec.cycling Bill Sornson wrote: Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: On 4 Aug 2006 12:21:52 -0700, said in .com: It is indeed very complex, You could hardly think otherwise. To do so would be to admit that you have wasted your time and energy amassing a "library" of "data" on a *very* trivial issue. The fundamental weakness in your position is that I originally thought it *was* simple until I actually studied it, prompted by others on the cycling newsgroup. IOW, peer pressure caused you to question your own common sense and sound judgment. Exactly. That's how science works, and the reason it is so much more successful than common sense: it's a team effort. No, not "exactly". The simple decision to wear or not wear a helmet is not "science". It's really quite simple: "Assess, decide and ride". Why do you seek to make a very simple decision complex? As a scientist I've been trained to avoid taking decisions which are simple and wrong. -- Chris Malcolm DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] |
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