Originally Posted by Wind 'N Snow
I tend to side with the old Hippocrates notion - first do no harm. A helmet has not been proven to do any harm, so why not wear one on the off chance that it actually may minimize the severity of an injury.
Originally Posted by bostontrevor
Ding! I think we have a winner!
absolutely! quantitative risk assessment is something i've studied and all of these attempts to advocate for
or against helmet use based on poorly-conceived statistical comparisons is tiresome to me. most of what bostontrevor, vivophobic and heebro have said is true enough, but you are all talking about slightly different things. if you want to use statistics to answer a question it has to be an intelligent question, not "is wearing a helmet gonna make me safer?"
just put the goddammit thing on and go for a ride goddammit.