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General Category => General Banter => Topic started by: Powershouse on April 01, 2014, 01:05:45 PM

Title: Helmet Laws - Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics
Post by: Powershouse on April 01, 2014, 01:05:45 PM

New York Times has a visual piece titled Fewer Helmets, More Deaths featuring data plots nationally and from states which have changed there helmet laws.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/31/science/100000002791463.app.html (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/31/science/100000002791463.app.html)

Title: Re: Helmet Laws - Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics
Post by: GUZZI JOHN on April 01, 2014, 04:24:49 PM

What's your beef? ???

Title: Re: Helmet Laws - Lies, Damn Lies & Statistics
Post by: gdawgs on April 02, 2014, 08:17:39 AM

Yeah, what the issue?  Do you think the peeps didn't die and it is a conspiracy?  (they are all in witness protection programs so they seem dead) 

Do you think people that crash without a helment going 60mph have a better chance at living versus with a helmet? 

If someone hit you on the head with a bat, would it be better with or without a helmet?  Just curious. 

The right to ride without a helmet is a different issue, unrelated to the statistics.