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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise
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Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 10:22:21 -0700
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On 2024-05-29 21:53, Andrew wrote:
> bad������sector wrote on Sun, 26 May 2024 19:21:04 -0400 :
> 
>> They don't even have to be looking at the phone or at any display. I saw
>> one idiot in whose car I was a passenger frequently eyeball two dashcam
>> displays to see if he was recording good clips.
> 
> The main message I wanted to communicate is that people believe in myths
> that have no basis in fact when you bother to doublecheck the facts.
> 
> The myth is that cellphones are so dangerous to use in a vehicle that the
> accident rate must have skyrocketed (and then leveled off) during the
> period that ownership rates went meteorically from 0% to almost 100%.
> 
> And yet... the fact is... nothing happened to the accident rate.

And yet... ...the fact is...

....that you don't understand that a complex system involving multiple 
factors cannot be so easily parsed.

Only a moron doesn't understand that.