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Injuries decreased 20% from 1980 to 2012 according those numbers.. seems significant no?

• ska 10y ago
  You have to be careful with those sorts of numbers. It says that monitored hospital visits (not injuries) have gone down, but those hospital visits have got a lot more expensive for most people too - one possible confounding factor.
  • electriclove 10y ago
    Agreed. If anything, I'm questioning the quote referencing that exact data point: "our close attention to safety has not in fact made a tremendous difference in the number of accidents children have"
• Diederich 10y ago
  I think playground equipment is quite a bit safer! I'm pretty sure supervision has little to do with it.
• dzdt 10y ago
  Increased, not decreased! Though I suspect a big part of the change was decrease in severity of injuries meriting a hospital visit.