Re:The Porsche Macan EV Is Being Recalled Because Its Headli...
by dgfitz on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @04:21AM
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I mean, the numbers are the numbers. Sounds like the point you wanted to make, accidentally, is that cycling has a linear growth rate of death if more of the population cycles.
Was that your goal?
Re:The Porsche Macan EV Is Being Recalled Because Its Headli...
by Cumpiler69 on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @04:28AM
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>I mean, the numbers are the numbers.
Random numbers alone mean nothing if they're meaningless and out of context. More people are killed every year by cows than by sharks. Does that make cows more dangerous than sharks or just that people are more likely to be around cows more often than around sharks?
If Germany has a higher population than UK, and also a higher percentage of people of that population cycle, then yeah you're gonna have more dead cyclists. D'uh!
Show me deaths per capita and cycling rates per capita, then we can talk about drawing a conclusion.
Re:The Porsche Macan EV Is Being Recalled Because Its Headli...
by supermatt on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @05:06AM
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In terms of urban distance travelled:
DE 5.5%: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
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UK 1.7%: https://www.cyclinguk.org/statistics
It's expected that if a lot more people cycle, you're gonna have more cycling deaths than in countries where fewer people cycle.
If nobody would cycle you'd have zero cycling deaths, hooray problem solved, you successfully gamed the metrics, if wining arbitrary metrics is the goal.