As part of its “4×4 Debate: Enemy of the people”, Subheading: “Gas-guzzling, road-hogging, air-polluting… and now even doctors have joined the outcry over 4×4 cars”, (so obviously a debate that’s going to be looked at impartially from both sides), The Independent prints this wonderful, wonderful piece on how to use statistical “analysis”…
Previous studies have shown that drivers using mobile phones have four times the risk of an accident. On that basis, 4×4 drivers are at 16 times the risk of having an accident, given that they are four times more likely to use a mobile compared with other drivers.
Interesting that. 16 times the risk? All the time? Or? Ah. And yet the passage implies…..
It’s a good job bits keep falling off Discoverys and they’re in the garage more often than on the road otherwise road death numbers would be awful…. I strongly suspect the reason the value for 4×4 drivers using their mobiles was so high was entirely due to Disco drivers stuck at the side of the road explaining to the RAC that the differential was buggered. Again.
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