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Originally Posted by likearock4x4
You can make stats say anything you want them to say if you twist them a little.
These stats don't have anything to do with experience level do they??? 
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That's a good point.And It could very well be the case.The problem with stats is that people tend to pick and choose which ones to use.Or ignore the ones that do not support their point .I Can't tell you how many times people tell newbies they shouldn't ride without taking the MSF BRC based on old hurt report stats (which was compiled before the BRC course even existed but that's a different story) Yet they offer the advice of bringing your new bike home on the side streets and avoiding the expressway even though according the same study your much safer cruising the super slab at 70 then traveling through all those intersections at 35 mph.
And your right .Stats can be twisted.That is why the government making stricter laws (especially nanny protect us from ourselves laws) based on cherry picked statistics that lump us into groups instead of seeing us as individuals is a very bad Idea. That is why I don't agree with the Tiered licensing program. And that is why you can't ask "would you recommend a 600 cc super sport to a noob?" To many variable based on the individual to answer that question