wellAlbidarned
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OK so recently I've been getting a load of **** from friends and classmates because of my decision to bike without a helmet. Do you guys wear one? Is it compulsory in your country? What are your views on the matter?
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Do you wear a helmet while biking?
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wellAlbidarned
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Do you think motorists and pedestrians should be wearing them too?
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Is this a serious question?
Anyway. Your call but if i was cycling I'd be wearing one for the same reason I wear a seatbelt in the car.
HeathDavisSpeed
Well-known member
I wear a helmet when I cycle. It's not hard tbf.
wellAlbidarned
Well-known member
Rates of head injuries for both walking as a pedestrian and driving a car are higher than for riding a bike. If it's a matter of safety surely we should be consistent?
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wellAlbidarned
Well-known member
Wearing a helmet actually makes you more likely to be involved in an accident. Pretty much zero evidence that wearing one makes you safer.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
This sounds like one of those "there's zero evidence of global warming" type assertions...
Top_Cat
Well-known member
Not compulsory in Germany so don't wear one.
That said, there is dedicated cycling infrastructure here and attitudes toward cyclists are completely different. If I was in Oz, even if not compulsory, would probably don a helmet on the off chance some geared-up bogan decides to **** with me.
That said, there is dedicated cycling infrastructure here and attitudes toward cyclists are completely different. If I was in Oz, even if not compulsory, would probably don a helmet on the off chance some geared-up bogan decides to **** with me.
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Athlai
Not Terrible
Except about 30-40 years of study advising that they are.
hendrix
Well-known member
Think you need to take stats 101 mate.
hendrix
Well-known member
Ftr this is why we use inbred, near genetically identical mice in experiments. If you can control one factor it's much easier to get statistically significant results.
The question that is asked is "do helmets reduce the severity of brain injury in accidents". It's not rates of injury: Helmets don't prevent accidents. very hard to answer that question by looking at incidents of injury as each accident has a different degree of severity so the statistical power is minute and is unlikely to give you a true answer, no matter how many factors you control for. Pedestrian and motorist incidents also don't answer the question at all, because they're completely irrelevant unless you're talking about lawmaker consistency. And frankly I'm dubious about Albi's claims.
No, the best answer to this question in the absence of controlled trials is mechanistic; I.e. Crash test dummies.
The question that is asked is "do helmets reduce the severity of brain injury in accidents". It's not rates of injury: Helmets don't prevent accidents. very hard to answer that question by looking at incidents of injury as each accident has a different degree of severity so the statistical power is minute and is unlikely to give you a true answer, no matter how many factors you control for. Pedestrian and motorist incidents also don't answer the question at all, because they're completely irrelevant unless you're talking about lawmaker consistency. And frankly I'm dubious about Albi's claims.
No, the best answer to this question in the absence of controlled trials is mechanistic; I.e. Crash test dummies.
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Athlai
Not Terrible
This is ruling out a ridiculous amount of scientific study.
hendrix
Well-known member
Athlai
Not Terrible
Yes. And it's still ruling out entire branches of scientific research. Just because controlled trials are easier to confirm results, by no means makes them the only statistically significant way to perform a study.