And that's what I'm trying to point out, that all these statistics show is when something went wrong and the helmet failed to protect enough... There is no statistic on when something went wrong and the helmet helped... Thus, by making the choice to not wear a helmet you could increase the chance of injury way more than some people would think just looking at those statistics/risk numbers where the helmet failed. That's the way I see it.

EDIT; What we need to know to make an intelligent/educated decision is the one thing we don't have any numbers for... How many people did helmets protect enough to keep from going to the ER... If we knew that it was only 1% I too would stop wearing a helmet as I can work with that number no problem, but what if, when in the group where head meets pavement (and it's probably not as small a number as most people think), it's 5%, 10%, 20%+ of that, that the helmet is helping enough to keep from going to ER? So with that lack of data I choose wearing a helmet as that's the prudent thing to do...