Originally Posted by Helmet Head
...while I was just learning EC, and reading all this stuff from Forester about overtaking collisions being so rare that a cyclist can practically just assume they're not going to happen.
Not only reading "all this stuff from Forester", but believing "all this stuff from Forester" as gospel truth. Instead of the "stuff" that it is, which is statistical and analytical poo-poo.
Explains everything, including the obsession with fabricating statistics and theories in conjunction assigning the label of "irrational fear" on those who don't accept on faith "all this stuff."