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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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