"Blackblade" wrote in message ...

Ed, the report from the Lake District Mountain Rescue is hardly
'social data'. Nor is the report from the British Medical Journal on
incidents per exposure. This is hard data showing the real
situation.

Edward Dolan wrote:

Hard data belongs to the realm of the physical sciences. All
other data concerning people is social data and not very rigorous to say the
least.

It's rather more rigorous than trawling the internet for reports of accidents, which is what you do :-).

If the reports are numerous enough and sufficiently widespread, any intelligent person will detect a pattern and draw some conclusions. The reason you are unable to perform these quite simple functions is because you are not intelligent.

The Mountain Rescue report details every incident where they were called out ... that's a representative sample for a season in one location.

Yes, but only for that one location. Not general enough.

We need details on the nature of the accidents to know what we
are talking about. I present those details in my reports.

I gave you the details ... and you don't like it because it doesn't support your position.

"Your reports" are no such thing ... they're random articles culled from the media all over the world. They are almost entirely worthless since you don't have enough data from any one location to infer anything.

The fact that they are random and from all over the world is what makes them so good. It is your data from one location that is worthless.
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Mountain bikers are barbarians and have no right to be on any trail used by hikers – unless they want to get off their god damn ****ing bikes and walk like everyone else. When they crash and injure themselves, I rejoice! If and when they manage to kill themselves, I say good riddance to bad rubbish! Death to mountain biking!

“Tread softly! All the earth is holy ground.”
~ Christina Rossetti (Psalm 24),
from "A Later Life: A Double Sonnet of Sonnets"

Mountain bikes have wheels. Wheels are for roads.

Trails are for walking. What’s the matter? Can’t walk?

Ed Dolan the Great
aka
Saint Edward the Great