On Monday, May 20, 2019 at 4:10:56 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 5/20/2019 5:07 PM, jbeattie wrote:

Tom, statistically, you did not have any of your head injuries. They were imagined...

IOW: "Math is HARD!!!"


It's not math. It's statistics -- where two plus two may equal four, depending on who you are. Large population studies say little or nothing about the risks encountered by individual cyclists in particular areas or engaging in specific types of cycling. Tom is an example -- as are most of my cohorts. It doesn't take a math genius to recognize that lumping together the accident rates of NYC bike messengers and Sun City retirees is going to create a combined rate that is not accurate for either group.

-- Jay Beattie.