Yet another cyclist killed. pH (Several, actually)

On 9/9/19 2:18 pm, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 9/8/2019 11:38 PM, James wrote:
On 9/9/19 10:00 am, Frank Krygowski wrote:

Also, other data has shown that the usual hit-from-behind deaths
happen on rural roads, to unlit night cyclists.

Hang on a moment, just above you said "I wouldn't call hits from
behind "such a common mode of death for cyclists" because _all_
cycling deaths are tremendously rare", and now you claim there are
"usual hit-from-behind deaths".

Isn't "common" and "usual" saying practically the same thing?

Pay attention to the context. If we discuss the tiny group of
hit-from-behind deaths, we can say what's usual within that tiny group.
That doesn't make it common in any sense.



The discussion is of the "mode of death for cyclists".

If the proportion or percentage of all the other modes is less than that
of being hit from behind, then the most _common_ mode is being hit from
behind.

If the next categorised mode is far less common than the "being hit from
behind" mode, then being hit from behind is "such a common mode"
compared with others.

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JS