How to laugh with statistics

you know? said:

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 said:

you know? said:

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 said:

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 said:

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 <[email hidden]>, Just zis Guy,

you know? (') said:

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)

--
[email hidden] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

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

Quoted message said:

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.

Quoted message said:

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 said:

Blonde said:

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

John_Kane said:

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

Blonde said:

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.

My sister is a nurse. I've had several heated discussions with her about
whether or not I should wear a h. while cycling. I think I might forward
this link to her... :-)

d.

Quoted message said:

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

So did I.I am just cheesed off about that hijacked meeting that's all.
TerryJ

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> whizzed past me shouting

Quoted message said:

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

Mailed on.
If the BMA don't like it they can set about making hospitals safer than
cycling.

--
Sue ]🙁🙂

Bicycle helmets are a bit of a scam.
They make most cyclists slightly less safe but there's money in selling them.