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- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Path: sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!sparcplug!markk
- From: markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- In-Reply-To: car377@druhi.ATT.COM (RogersC)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.220143.2079@tcsi.com>
- Originator: markk@sparcplug
- Sender: markk@tcs.com
- Reply-To: markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <RTARAZ.92Nov14211852@bigwpi.WPI.EDU> <1434@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> <1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com> <22473@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 22:01:43 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <22473@drutx.ATT.COM>, car377@druhi (RogersC) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.033630.5630@tcsi.com>, markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) writes:
- >>
- >> "Say on a per mile basis someone is five times (I don't know the actual
- >> figure and would appreciate it if anyone knows) as likely to be killed
- >> on a motorcycle than in a car. That means that every 5 miles you
- >> travel in your car is as risky as one mile on a motorcycle.
- >
- >No, it doesn't mean that at all. There isn't any "actual" figure because
- >such figures are gross averages of poorly collected (and even more
- >poorly organized and processed) data.
-
- >The figures only apply to YOU if YOU are BOTH the average cager AND
- >the average motorcyclist, and if your exposure to risk factors happens
- >to be the same as the "average" person described by the statistic for
- >the time/place/conditions of the statistic.
-
- Nowhere in my post did the word average appear. I didn't say either
- of the people in the example was average or that the 5 - 1 figure
- represented the average (the request for info was for the average,
- however). If you read it carefully you'll see that the figure 5 to 1
- is completely hypothetical and it's actual value is not important to
- the validity of the argument (unless it's very large say, 50 - 1).
-
- Sheesh!
-
- --
- )V(ark)< markk@tcs.com DoD #400
- 1988 FZR400 1985 ZX900 Ninja 1977 RD400D
- "I'd rather shoot back."
-