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You are postfixing your post saying that this "evidence" is not enough to support you case on its own. My point is that it is even worse. You miss everything t

You are postfixing your post saying that this "evidence" is not enough to support you case on its own. My point is that it is even worse. You miss everything that disproves your opinion. The graph does not support your argumentation at all, there is too much noise. You need to explain how citations affect accidents. We fired most of our traffic cops in the eighties here, the number of citations plumeted. The number of deaths are on a steady decline.

dionidium 3y ago
> You need to explain how citations affect accidents. No, I don't. You're plainly demanding a standard of evidence that you wouldn't in any other domain, especially if you were inclined to prefer the explanation. I'm going to take "citations affect driver behavior" as axiomatic, unless you can disprove it. I'm not going to wait until we have 100 studies to confirm that a commonsense mechanism does indeed function in the most parsimoniously explained way. We have to act in the world. We don't have 100 years to figure out if ticketing drivers affects their behavior to some ridiculous standard of evidence you invented just now because you would prefer that explanation weren't true. People really need to stop allowing themselves to be held hostage to this kind of special pleading.