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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: egreen@east.sun.com (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.012029.19139@tcsi.com>
- Originator: markk@sparcplug
- Sender: markk@tcs.com
- Reply-To: markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer)
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <1992Nov18.220143.2079@tcsi.com> <1egelhINN8l1@sixgun.East.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:20:29 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- egreen@east (Ed Green - Pixel Cruncher) writes:
- >In article 2079@tcsi.com, markk@tcs.com (Mark Kromer) writes:
- >>car377@druhi (RogersC) writes:
- >>>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.
-
- >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.
-
- I only needed (and offered) hypothetical figures for my argument, and
- I can make those up. I don't need statistics or averages to make my
- point.
-
- >It is just as valid and accurate as saying "every cigarette you smoke
- >cuts n minutes off the end of your life."
-
- More like:
- Let's say every cigarette you smoke cuts n minutes off the end of your
- life. Would that cigarette be worth those n minutes?
-
- --
- )V(ark)< markk@tcs.com DoD #400
- 1988 FZR400 1985 ZX900 Ninja 1977 RD400D
- "I'd rather shoot back."
-