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If you are sharing facts like "Wisconsin falls are more deadly than Alabama falls", then you need to address the more obvious hypotheses that are conjured in th
by alphazard 9mo ago
If you are sharing facts like "Wisconsin falls are more deadly than Alabama falls", then you need to address the more obvious hypotheses that are conjured in the readers head.
I found no mention of "ice" or "slippery", and instead the article blazed forward with its preferred explanation without providing evidence to dismiss the more obvious hypotheses.
- rossdavidh 9mo agoPresumably because the Wisconsin-vs-Alabama differences have not significantly changed in the last few decades? Wisconsin has been a lot snowier than Alabama for a long time.
- duskwuff 9mo agoWhat's possibly more relevant is that Wisconsin has unusually high rates of alcohol abuse. Their high rate of fall-related deaths may be better understood as a high rate of alcohol-related deaths which involve falls. https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/wisconsins-death-grip-with-alcohol-is-killing-more-residents/ https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/wisconsins-death-grip-wit...
- shmeeed 9mo ago>Another state-level predictor of accidental fall death rates is wintry weather: eight of the 10 states with the highest age-adjusted rates are notably snowy. >Wisconsin, Maine, Vermont, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Dakota. The two states in the top 10 that are not notably snowy are Oklahoma and Oregon.
- 0_____0 9mo agoI have slipped on black ice in Portland OR.
- red-iron-pine 9mo agobruised my tailbone bad enough to see a doctor after a slip on black ice in VA