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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by delinka on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:08PM (#18677842)
This title has been editorialized from

"Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

to

"Parachutes prevent death when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial"

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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by raphlinus on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:27AM (#18679126)
I believe that's an extremely subtle meta-joke on how popularizations of clinical trials always manage to mis-state what can actually be concluded from the trial. If so, well done. If that wasn't an intentional joke, even better.
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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by throw-far-away on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:44PM (#18678029)
It would suck to be in the control group. ;)

Also, as my grandfather was a paratrooper: parachuting isn't a risk free activity even when the main canopy deploys properly, i.e., broken limbs on landing. And it's remotely possible to survive a fall without a parachute from terminal velocity height, i.e., Vesna Vulović. Edit: <- Edge-cases contrary to the obvious.

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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by txcwpalpha on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:53PM (#18678070)
The control group in this study only fell a couple of feet at most. I don't think it sucked much for them at all.
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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by throw-far-away on Thursday December 13, 2018 @09:57PM (#18678087)
Smh. Poe's law disclaimer wink added.
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Re:Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jump... by txcwpalpha on Thursday December 13, 2018 @10:00PM (#18678104)
Ha! Fair enough. I'm leaving my comment just in case other people really do misinterpret the study.
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