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  1. Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!yale!cs.yale.edu!rtnmr.chem.yale.edu!rescorla
  3. From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
  4. Subject: Re: HELMETS
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov19.022638.20128@cs.yale.edu>
  6. Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
  8. Organization: Rescorla for himself.
  9. References: <1992Nov18.121615.3330@cs.hw.ac.uk> <1992Nov19.001059.7670@megatek.com>
  10. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 02:26:38 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Nov19.001059.7670@megatek.com> randy@megatek.com writes:
  14. >be part of the traffic, I always wear a helmet.  However, I *know*, from
  15. >riding for ten years with and without helmets, that your awareness of your
  16. >surroundings at low speeds is greatly increased *without* a helmet.
  17. Hmm...I always find this sort of "I know" argument to be suspicious.
  18. People "know" a lot of things that are flat out false when empirically
  19. tested. Have you considered the possibility that you just think that
  20. your awareness of your surroundings is greatly enhanced? Have you
  21. tried generating a sample suite of external things to notice and
  22. testing this theory? If not, I suggest that you really don't have
  23. enough data to make such a sweeping claim--even for yourself.
  24. -Ekr
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  31. Eric Rescorla, DoD#431 (Nighthawk S)              rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu
  32. Former chemist now CM400 mechanic                 ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
  33.                 "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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