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> You believe that if the evidence indicates more people would die with the helmets That ain't what was argued. The commenter above argued that helmets encour
by yellowapple 4y ago
> You believe that if the evidence indicates more people would die with the helmets
That ain't what was argued. The commenter above argued that helmets encourage people to take more risks. Even assuming that to be true, the sane answer is to train people to ride safely even when wearing helmets, not to ban helmets.
> it would be a statistical certainty your omission of action is basically causing people's deaths
1. "statistical certainty" is an oxymoron.
2. correlation != causation
- whimsicalism 4y ago1. It's may be an oxymoron but also there is no such thing as any other form of certainty. 2. Yes, this is why we have RCTs.