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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by threeseed on Sunday May 22, 2022 @01:14PM (#31470449)
You know that the article you posted was about refuting this claim:

"After re-analysis of Walker's data, helmet wearing is not associated with close motor vehicle passing"

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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by KennyBlanken on Sunday May 22, 2022 @02:55PM (#31471504)
As discussed above: the "re-analysis" took an analog measurement, filtered it into a binary "close" or "not close" at an arbitrary distance threshold, and then patted themselves on the back when the found there was no difference.
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Re:Pedal Me bans staff riders from wearing helmets for safet... by i_am_jl on Sunday May 22, 2022 @01:23PM (#31470543)
Confirmation bias machine strikes again.
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