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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,ca.driving
Subject: Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate
 to rise in the USA
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 11:38:45 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30/05/2024 08:36, Andrew wrote:
>> Chris wrote on Thu, 30 May 2024 06:34:27 -0000 (UTC) :
>> 
>>>> Take a look at the accident numbers for the entire world, by country.
>>>> <https://data.oecd.org/transport/road-accidents.htm>
>>> 
>>> If you select "accidents involving casualties" there clearly is a reversal
>>> in the downward trend around 2010 in the US. The increasing trend continues
>>> until covid and the latest data still shows greater numbers of accidents
>>> since 2004.
>> 
>> You don't get it that numbers of accidents isn't a valid metric.
>> It's the accident rate that matters since it's normalized properly.
> 
> The numbers have gone up 28% between 2011 and 2016. Do you really 
> believe that's driven by something else??
> 
>> Bear in mind accident-rate statistics have been compiled for a hundred
>> years and yet you dispute them only because you don't like what they are.
>> 
>> Do you know why you can't find statistics that back up your belief system?
>> I do.
>> 
>> They don't exist.
>> 
>> If they did exist, you'd find them.
>> And you haven't.
> 
> So taking the data from OECD and normalising by the population and miles 
> driven data from IIHS, both sources being ones you've recommended, the 
> accident rate has rapidly increased since 2010. NB: the iphone was 
> launched in 2007.
> https://ibb.co/tpXpCDY
> 
> Still believe the data doesn't exist?

So Arlen has been shown to be spreading lies and he's suddenly stopped
posting. Hmmm, I wonder why?

Give it a few days and he'll be back with a new nym spouting rubbish about
something completely different yet the same.