Originally Posted by
closetbiker
but can you show these are exceptions?
Can you show they are
not exceptions?
Exceptions are certainly expected. Particular examples don't magically characterize the
general case. There's an
extra burden to argue that examples are typical.
Originally Posted by
closetbiker
It certainly has been noted that when cyclists don helmets, death rates remain the same.
It is "certainly" obvious that there are all sorts of problems with these "studies". Nearly all of these "studies" performed by people campaigning against mandatory helmet laws. They could be designed to produce the desired conclusion.
These kinds of studies are notoriously problematic. (That doesn't mean that they should not be done.)
Note that the death rates are not
exactly the "same".