How to laugh with statistics

I was going to add the usual disclaimer re contents containing the
H-word, but I think this is uncontentious. It's a scholarly review of
the relative dangers of cycling vs. being treated by a member of the
BMA. The report contains a chart, helpfully animated to assist
non-specialists in understanding the relative scale of the two
problems.

http://bovlomov.liquidpurple.com/helmets.htm

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:59:53 +0000, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:

I was going to add the usual disclaimer re contents containing the H-word,
but I think this is uncontentious. It's a scholarly review of the
relative dangers of cycling vs. being treated by a member of the BMA. The
report contains a chart, helpfully animated to assist non-specialists in
understanding the relative scale of the two problems.

http://bovlomov.liquidpurple.com/helmets.htm

Brilliant!



Mike

Mike Causer wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:59:53 +0000, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:


I was going to add the usual disclaimer re contents containing the H-word,
but I think this is uncontentious. It's a scholarly review of the
relative dangers of cycling vs. being treated by a member of the BMA. The
report contains a chart, helpfully animated to assist non-specialists in
understanding the relative scale of the two problems.

http://bovlomov.liquidpurple.com/helmets.htm


Brilliant!

Indeed. :-)

R.

Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
I was going to add the usual disclaimer re contents containing the
H-word, but I think this is uncontentious. It's a scholarly review of
the relative dangers of cycling vs. being treated by a member of the
BMA. The report contains a chart, helpfully animated to assist
non-specialists in understanding the relative scale of the two
problems.

http://bovlomov.liquidpurple.com/helmets.htm

Guy
--
http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk

"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken


Good one! ;- )

It made me smile cos it's exactly the kind of vox pop statistics that
the mandatory helmet pushers usually state, only in reverse. Love the
animated chart! I wish I could give my 'You
do-wear-a-helmet-don't-you?,' concerned-looking Mother the benefit of a
look at that, but I doubt she would see why it's funny.

Blonde wrote:


I wish I could give my 'You
do-wear-a-helmet-don't-you?,' concerned-looking Mother the benefit of a
look at that, but I doubt she would see why it's funny.

Hehe. Howbout the Scottish Parliament website, for an informed
look without a frivolous face?

My parents can get horribly uptight about some things I do,
but fortunately cycling in comfort isn't one of them:-)
Setting off alone into the mountains with backpack is a
different story ....

--
not me guv

in message , Just zis Guy,
you know? ') wrote:

I was going to add the usual disclaimer re contents containing the
H-word, but I think this is uncontentious. It's a scholarly review of
the relative dangers of cycling vs. being treated by a member of the
BMA. The report contains a chart, helpfully animated to assist
non-specialists in understanding the relative scale of the two
problems.

http://bovlomov.liquidpurple.com/helmets.htm

Most excellent! Many thanks for the link (and congratulations to
Bovlomov)

--
(Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

;; I'll have a proper rant later, when I get the time.

I feel most uncomfortable about the words' the bma would like....'
Some politicans at the bma conference perhaps.
You might mention those doctors groups that have taken a more
respectable line.
TerryJ

wrote:
I feel most uncomfortable about the words' the bma would like....'
Some politicans at the bma conference perhaps.

Though, if conferences have any value, it is now a BMA position.

Therefore those BMA members who think its wrong have work to do to reverse
that position. Particularly as politicians outside the BMA are jumping on
the vote as a mandate for change.

You might mention those doctors groups that have taken a more
respectable line.

Perhaps a satirical webpage needs to be bold and use a big-brush.


I thought the page was very funny and well to the point.



- Nigel (not a medic, or associated with the BMA )


--
Nigel Cliffe,
Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/

Nick Kew wrote:
Blonde wrote:


I wish I could give my 'You
do-wear-a-helmet-don't-you?,' concerned-looking Mother the benefit of a
look at that, but I doubt she would see why it's funny.

Hehe. Howbout the Scottish Parliament website, for an informed
look without a frivolous face?

My parents can get horribly uptight about some things I do,
but fortunately cycling in comfort isn't one of them:-)
Setting off alone into the mountains with backpack is a
different story ....

And quite right they are too. Those bears and wolves can be deadly, not
to mention the cougars.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:14:11 -0800, John_Kane wrote:

Those bears and wolves can be deadly, not to mention the cougars.

Dunno about bears or cougars, but the Wolves are no longer the force they
once were :-((

OTOH, maybe a few Canis Lupus around here would keep the damn Muntjac
under control.....




Mike