Originally Posted by LittleBigMan
You're entitled to your opinion.
I can only go by personal experience on this. Everyone else will too, I'm sure.
Personal opinion and personal experience are the best reference for reporting your personal opinion and experience; and personal anecdotes, too.
Personal opinion and personal experience (and personal agendas) are not a very "scientific basis" for recording/evaluating "evidence" about cyclist behavior or safety records, reaching conclusions about comparative risk, and making psychological evaluations of the entire population of cyclists, would be cyclists, and never were cyclists.