• Yeah, your maths check out. Presumably that's one of the reasons the NIH doesn't push helmet mandates.

    Anyway, I've removed my post because it wasn't helpful.

  • I've removed my post because it wasn't helpful

    There is nothing wrong with posting good information about the real world effectiveness of helmets, I just wanted to remind people of the context. It's like these tabloid headlines "Doing X halves your chance of dieing of Y"; even if the study actually bears out the headline, it's of limited utility to the average punter if his whole life probability of dieing of Y was already 10-5 or less.

  • Yeah, agreed. Ultimately I think mashton was looking for more a crash-test dummy impact study than a meta-analysis of data from crash outcomes.

    I left the important bit about drunk cycling in though. Just might save a forumenger's life.

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