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Originally Posted by Ninja_Wendy
Well seeing that not all children FIT within the seat belt would kinda contradict that. Most children under the age of 5 or 6 are not going to fit properly with a seat belt. My 10 year old was in a booster until he was 9 because he is small the seat belt came across his neck.
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IIRC it took in to consideration things like the size of the child. It has some really scary stuff in it. But don't worry. It probably won't apply to you.
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Originally Posted by Ninja_Wendy
And I don't know about statistics for motorcycles being biased in this case, they provide the raw data so you can see for yourself. Maybe it is some kind of "conspiracy theory", who am I to say. My point in providing it was that people were throwing around random percentages and guessing on things so I thought it would be nice to provide some actual data to the conversation.
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Not a conspiracy theorist here. Just a skeptic who is tired of being lied to when it has the potential of affecting what I
will do tomorrow.
I'm pointing out that studies (even when raw data is provided) can be flawed. Got yourself a masters degree in science? Unless you do analyzing and drawing conclusions from the study and its raw data is really difficult. It's also difficult to determine if the study's fundamental assumptions are flawed or not. That said - yeah - people ought to be really careful flinging statistics around. Most of the time when people being throwing numbers around they're made up, misrepresented, used out of context, or the number itself was just plane wrong.
so lets keep the post wh0ring going.
BTW - anybody actually think this thread will prevent the next crop of n00bs from posting the usual stream of "I'm a paraplegic anorexic and I've never ridden a motorcycle before but I want to start and I want to buy this really cool ZX6. What color should I get?".
Is there anyway we can start a pool on it? Anyway we can get a count on the number of n00b threads for 2004, 2005, 2006 and this year so we can make an average and then see if 2008 is higher or lower. Probably set a start and end date too so we don't have to count all year.
just a thought.