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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Some traffic stats
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:35:40 -0400
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:01:00 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Perhaps the concept of "per mile" is too complicated for some readers?

<EYEROLL> I will repeat for those who are too simple minded to
understand it the first time...

There many, many more than twice the number of pedestrians than
bicyclists, Dummy, and yet the number of pedestrian accidents is less
than twice the number of bicycling accidents.
 
Case in point:
There are more people hurt or killed by way of bicycle accidents than
there are for mountain climbers, so by Krygowski's standards,
bicycling is more dangerous than mountain climbing.

Furthermore, the previous claim of comparing the mileage is also a
ridiculously stupid way to evaluate the statistics given the total
amount of time the personas engaged in the activities are vulnerable
to having an accident.
 
In other words, the total time all the pedestrians spend being
pedestrians compared to total time all the bicyclists are bicycling
is also exponentially greater, given that a bicyclists covers three,
four, five times more miles than a pedestrian in a given amount of
time. and yet, even then, the number of pedestrian accidents is less
than twice the number of bicycling accidents.
 
<sigh> Some people (Junior Carrington and Krygowski ) are too simple
 minded to look at data and evaluate what it really represents.