Originally Posted by
wphamilton
I understand the objection and it's a valid one concerning many of the studies showing how effective helmets are. But here I was only addressing the risk of having the accident, regardless of helmets.
Yes and I agree the 1% is the risk of having an accident where the helmet failed to protect enough to avoid a hospital visit... But what the
actual risk of having an accident where head hits the ground is unknown, totally unknown... That's my point.(trying to be)... So what if the actual chance is 5% but I decide that 1% is safe enough and start to not wear a helmet? A 5% compared to 1% is a big difference, we just don't know the actual % number... We don't have any % numbers where a helmet
actually did it's job and shouldn't dismiss that greater possibility...