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Old 12-20-2003, 12:34 PM   #1
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http://content.health.msn.com/conten...e/78/95878.htm

I don't believe this. What are your thoughts?
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Old 12-20-2003, 12:45 PM   #2
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Old 12-20-2003, 12:52 PM   #3
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I agree with secretmaster. They definately need a real job. Or at least soemthing better to do than to research that.

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Old 12-20-2003, 02:47 PM   #4
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Looks like to me the article writer has a white or silver car he wants to sell.
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Old 12-20-2003, 02:52 PM   #5
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Previous studies have suggested that white or light colored cars have fewer car crashes, but in this study, silver cars had dramatically fewer crashes.
Which would mean that the colour doesn't matter, not that
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[...] increasing the proportion of silver cars on roads may be a potential strategy for reducing injury from car crashes.
I would insert a smiley hitting a brick wall with head/self here somewhere.
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Old 12-20-2003, 03:31 PM   #6
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Uuuhhhh. :drools: Sorry, lost a few brain cells after reading that.
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Old 12-20-2003, 03:51 PM   #7
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People should participate in work that helps the society. This is pathetic.
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Old 12-20-2003, 04:27 PM   #8
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Stupid stastistics. They have a "stat" for just about every angle of life.
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Old 12-20-2003, 04:41 PM   #9
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Previous studies have suggested that white or light colored cars have fewer car crashes, but in this study, silver cars had dramatically fewer crashes.
Which would mean that the colour doesn't matter, not that
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[...] increasing the proportion of silver cars on roads may be a potential strategy for reducing injury from car crashes.
I would insert a smiley hitting a brick wall with head/self here somewhere.
[/QUOTE]Oh, why wouldn't there be subtle differences in safety depending on what colour your car is?

I agree that there are better things to do than to conduct this kind of research, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have merit. If they had arrived at the conclusion that darkly coloured cars were safer I would've thought it strange, but I don't see why it doesn't make sense that white, lightly coloured, and silver cars are easier to spot in the dark and thus slightly safer? Same thing as advicing pedestrians to wear bright clothes if they intend to walk by the road in the dark.

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Old 12-20-2003, 04:47 PM   #10
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Don't confuse cause and effect. Just because there appear to be more crashes in brown cars does not mean that brown cars are more dangerous. Someone just went digging through some data to see if they could find some event similarity, and this is what they came up with.

Stay tuned next year for the followup paper: Oh, it's not really the car at all.
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