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This reminds me of better doctors having higher fatality rates because the most critically ill patients seek them out. Since Teslas are at the top of every cras
by josephcsible 2y ago
This reminds me of better doctors having higher fatality rates because the most critically ill patients seek them out. Since Teslas are at the top of every crash test safety study, I suspect that this is a spurious outcome of Simpson's paradox and that proper controls would make the effect disappear.
- floxy 2y agoEven more fun would be if alcoholics were more likely to buy Tesla's because of the self-driving aids. And it turned out this cohort was less likely to be involved in fatal accidents than the non-Tesla-driving alcoholics. So that even after controlling for more alcoholics purchasing Tesla, there would be a reduction in the overall fatality rate. But my gut feel is that there is a systematic bias in the iSeeCars mileage data that they aren't properly accounting for (say prevalence of leasing EVs skewing the mileage estimates).