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- From: crs@beta.lanl.gov (Charlie Sorsby)
- Subject: Re: Deer Whistles (was Re: Hearing ultraso
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.194435.18013@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:44:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.181436.22434@newshost.lanl.gov> srlee@beta.lanl.gov (Stephen R Lee) writes:
- =
- = I agree, but I am not talking about a sample population of one. Grated, I
- = am not talking about a huge sample either. If the approximately two dozen
- = deer that were hit by locals in my area, only 2 were hit by people with
- = whisltes. There were more deer (actually, deer and elk both) hit, but
- = I can only speak with certainty about people that are local to my area.
- = It is probably safe to assume that the other doezen or so were also hit
- = by people that did not have them. At any rate, while this is not a large
- = sample, it does seem to indicate that, at least emperically, in my area
- = they are somewhat effective. Maybe we have different deer and elk or
- = something. :-)
-
- Only one comment about this--I *promise* :)
-
- To make full sense of Steve's data, one would first have to know
- what proportion of *all* vehicles--including those that did *not*
- strike deer--had whistles.
-
- In other words, two of twenty-four vehicles--about 8%--involved
- in vehicle-deer collisions had whistles. What percent of *all*
- vehicles had (or have) whistles? If fewer that 8%, it would
- suggest that people with whistles are *more* likely to hit deer.
- Clearly there are many more variables than this involved but...
-
- One more data point--I don't use them and I've never hit a deer. :)
- I shouldn't have said that--now a whole herd of them will probably
- kamikaze my vehicle...
-
-
- --
- Best,
-
- Charlie "Older than dirt" Sorsby "I'm the NRA!"
- crs@lanl.gov
-