Statistics good only if all factors considered.Editor: In regards to your Oct/Nov 2005 issue Stateline section, "Hard Heads hard heads see centaurea repens. or Helmets" article, it is noted that motorcycle motorcycle, motor vehicle whose design is based on the bicycle. The German inventor Gottlieb Daimler is generally credited with building the first practical motorcycle in 1885. The motorcycle did not become dependable and popular, however, until after 1900. deaths increased 81 percent since the helmet law was repealed in Florida. What you don't include in your article is that new motorcycle registrations in Florida spiked from 219,000 in 2000 to 417,000 last year--a 91 percent jump, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. Using the simplified logic that the repeal The Annulment or abrogation of a previously existing statute by the enactment of a later law that revokes the former law. The revocation of the law can either be done through an express repeal of helmet laws lead to an increase in deaths, it appears that the repeal of the helmet law actually did not increase deaths because the percentage increase in deaths compared to the percentage increase of registrations was lower. My point being that any correlation between a factor and result may well be inaccurate unless all other factors that are affecting the result are also considered. Thomas Ongstad Michigan |
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