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Re: Bright colored helmets save lives.

#99948
From: StephG
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:24
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On 16 Apr 2004, "Pittsburgh bound"
<c.w.pittsburgh@verizon.net.nospam> pondered an unfair universe and
came up with news:rrNfc.64925$QQ6.25862@nwrdny02.gnilink.net:

> Have a cup of coffee with me and read this article from NZ.  Says
> a white helmet has a 24% lower risk than black  Food for thought.
>
> http://www.motorcyclistonline.com/newsandupdates/brighthelmetstudy/

I'm increasingly of the opinion that no motorcycle study is correct.
People conducting studies can always find a way to manipulate the
numbers to come to verify whatever premise that is in the original
hypothesis of their proposal.

If they didn't, then the whole study would have been a waste of time.

If I ever bought a lottery ticket, and subsequently won a lot of money,
one of the things I would do is create a foundation that would do
nothing but studies designed to come to the opposite conclusion of
whatever other study was being done. If the evidence was so strong that
it couldn't be validated, then the study could certify that the
original was incontrovertable.

--
StephG   AH108 BS30 YPF8

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