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- From: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: Saturday night COPS on FOX
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 16:16:49 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, RTP, NC
- Lines: 32
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1egelhINN8l1@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Nov18.220143.2079@tcsi.com>
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- In article 2079@tcsi.com, markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Nowhere in my post did the word average appear.
- >Sheesh!
-
- I didn't have to appear to be there. The ONLY way you can obtain such
- a figure is by playing games with accident statistics and total milage
- statistics and averaging the numbers and dividing the averages to get
- an "accidents per mile" number.
-
- It is just as valid and accurate as saying "every cigarette you smoke
- cuts n minutes off the end of your life."
-
- Sheesh, indeed!
-
- ---
- Ed Green, former Ninjaite |I was drinking last night with a biker,
- Ed.Green@East.Sun.COM |and I showed him a picture of you. I said,
- DoD #0111 (919)460-8302 |"Go on, get to know her, you'll like her!"
- (The Grateful Dead) --> |It seemed like the least I could do...
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