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It's seat belts. People who die in wrecks are overwhelmingly not wearing seat belts. I would think marijuana users as a group probably have average seat belt
by hattmall 10mo ago
It's seat belts. People who die in wrecks are overwhelmingly not wearing seat belts. I would think marijuana users as a group probably have average seat belt usage, but people who don't wear seat belts probably have much higher than average marijuanna usage. Roughy 92% of people wear seat belts. But that 8% of people that don't wear setbelts makes up 50% or more of all fatalities. From my personal experience it seems easy to me to assume that 90% of the people that don't wear seat belts also use marijuanna.
- SecretDreams 10mo agoThe seat belts comment is so apt. We should be looking at the full population of drivers involved in accidents, not just those that went through a windshield. Restraints play such a pivotal role in crash safety, but not wearing them isn't a meaningful indicator of impairment status.
- henearkr 10mo agoI can't make sense of it mathematically. A statistical distribution fitting these characteristics does not exist. If non-weeders have an average seat belt wearing, and if weeders also have an average seat belt wearing, then the proportion of weeders inside of the seat belt non-wearing class is just equal to the proportion of weeders inside the whole population.
- block_dagger 10mo agoYou had me until the last sentence. Your easy assumption seems nonsensical to me.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoIs this a joke? The people who don't wear seatbelts are in my observation old folks who grew up without them or before using them was mandatory. It's just their habit. I've almost never seen a person under about age 40 not using a seatbelt.
- hattmall 10mo agoNo. I don't know a lot of people that don't wear seatbelts, but they all smoke weed. All of my friends that died in car wrecks weren't wearing seat belts and would have definitely tested positive for THC. I don't know any old people that don't wear seatbelts. The people I do know that don't wear seatbelts also live pretty otherwise high risk lives, drug dealers, strippers, street gang members,etc.
- danaris 10mo agoWhile I do not commonly ride in cars driven by people outside my family, my experience has been quite the opposite: when I do ride in cars with older people, they buckle up as a matter of course, while when I ride with younger people, they are much more likely not to.
- phito 10mo agoHow are people not wearing seatbelt? I've never seen a car that doesn't make a constant annoying noise if you're not wearing it while driving. Do they mod the car to disable this safety system? That seems too far stretched...
- scottyeager 10mo agoOlder cars don't have these systems. Also they are easy to bypass with a dummy buckle. There are counties where seatbelt usage is far less common than the US.
- crustaceansoup 10mo agoJust click the belt in with no one occupying the seat and sit on top of it.
- vel0city 10mo agoI never understood this though. It seems like more work and even more uncomfortable just to knowingly make things worse for yourself.
- eimrine 10mo agoEither O B E Y or do what you named as "more work". Different person chooses different way of dealing with annoyances.
- discreteevent 10mo agoDon't fool yourself. In the end you have to obey the laws of physics and the punishment is extremely harsh and permanent.
- vel0city 10mo agoI never agreed to be bound to some "law of conservation of momentum"! I'm a free person!
- Panzer04 10mo agoIt seems much more straightforward to me to assume impairment. This is the obvious corollary, not seat belts. It could be seat belts, of course, but I don't think that's the obvious conclusion.