Re: A recently released report

On 2006-04-23, Donga (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Please give the source - preferably a web link.

Wow, bratton has found the right buttons to push, hasn't he?

Where's he getting the grammer tutoring?

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TimC said:

Where's he getting the grammer tutoring?

^^^^^^^
Somebody other than your spelling coach?
And why does this sig pop up when I'm *not* BLAMming?
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TimC said:

On 2006-04-23, Donga (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Please give the source - preferably a web link.

Wow, bratton has found the right buttons to push, hasn't he?

Where's he getting the grammer tutoring?

Not wanting to spoil the fun, but I found it quickly with Google...

http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/roadsafety/papers/bicycle_helmet_legislation.html

Donga said:

Please give the source - preferably a web link.

Try
http://www.magma.ca/~ocbc/wacosts.html
This Canadian site quotes
http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/roadsafety/papers/bicycle_helmet_legislation.html
Unfortunately
http://www.transport.wa.gov.au
seems to be down.
Is this coincidence?

Peter

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On 2006-04-24, Peter Keller (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/roadsafety/papers/bicycle_helmet_legislation.html
Unfortunately
http://www.transport.wa.gov.au
seems to be down.
Is this coincidence?

http://web.archive.org/web/20010218072309/http://www.transport.wa.gov.au/roadsafety/papers/bicycle_helmet_legislation.html

although, no images.

Two things I noticed that pull the true results either way:

They note that this of course does not account for injuries that never
reach hospital. One would expect, if you believe helmets do their
job, that an injury before helmet laws resulting in hospital admission
may merely result in a bump on the head post law.

They also say "A strength of this study was that it was able to
control for the downward trend in the proportion of all road users
with head injury over the period.". Alas, from my reading, they do
not cater for the possible decrease in overall number of cyclists that
may or may not result from the legislation.

It appears that number of hospitalised head injury cases went down
marginally (OR=0.752 is not actually that shabby), but they don't
appear to mention the numbers of cyclists. Did cyclist numbers also
decrease by 0.752? If they did, there is an easy explanation of why
the head injury numbers went down.

Fortunately, the second argument was actually included in the
discussion (not to that level though). Can't see the consequences of
the first point mentioned, though.

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TimC
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