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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Some traffic stats
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:54:37 -0400
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:31:47 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>> On 3/14/2024 4:17 PM, floriduh dumbass wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:06:08 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please. For ~99% of cyclists, bicycling is not a "sport."
>>>
>>> Nonsense.
>
><chuckle>
>
>A dumbass who reads:
>"Approximately 76,000 pedestrians and 47,000 bicyclists are injured in 
>roadway crashes annually in the United States."
>
>and concludes
>
>"Of course riding bicycles is more dangerous than walking and those 
>figures, if true, substantiate it."
>
>claiming others are writing nonsense.

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.

Furthermore, your previous claim of comparing the mileage is also a
ridiculously stupid way to evaluate the statistics given the total
amount of time 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, Dummy, 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.