Darwins evolution, coming through again

[koleah]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/02/07/nyc.ipod.reut/index.html

New York State Sen. Carl Kruger says three pedestrians in his Brooklyn district have been killed since September upon stepping into traffic while distracted by an electronic device. In one case bystanders screamed "watch out" to no avail.


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Just seems like natural selection doing its job.

[tech-chan]

LOL, what idiots

[warbeak2099]

Oh because I guess an mp3 player makes it unable to USE YOUR BLOODY EYES and WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING.

[slade]

wait... so now everyone risks paying a $100 fine for listening to music... because 3 idiots walked into traffic?

[behemoth]

wait... so now everyone risks paying a $100 fine for listening to music... because 3 idiots walked into traffic?

You, cartwheels, traffic, now.

[cyrus-the-virus]

I saw that,

I wonder how long we have until we are all restricted to rubbepadded homes, because it is to dangrous to walk around outside.

[slade]

You, cartwheels, traffic, now.

theres this game some random kid from newton showed me.

its the best game evar.

you get a group of friends together, and air filled balls from wallmart.

then you find a busy intersection.

and throw the ball into it, and everyone tries to get the ball.


//speaking of that, ill be at BPS tonight.

[jenarelJAM]

Can I see the statistic of people who walked into traffic and were hit by cars who were <i>not</i> wearing ipods now please?
Really, if you're going to have a statistic, you've got to show a control... Otherwise it means nothing.

It's exactly like what they're doing in california. A major statistic was "there were 1078 reported car accidents from people talking on cell phones, but only 56 from people using hands-free devices"(statistics are off, btw, but you get the idea). Well... if people actually thought about that, and realized that nobody actually uses hand-free cell phones around here, so there are fewer of them on the road, and therefore, fewer to get in accidents... they would realize that that is a skewed statistic. Well... next year it will be illigal to talk on your cell while driving w/o a handsfree... I hate ignorance...

[slade]

Can I see the statistic of people who walked into traffic and were hit by cars who were <i>not</i> wearing ipods now please?
Really, if you're going to have a statistic, you've got to show a control... Otherwise it means nothing.

It's exactly like what they're doing in california. A major statistic was "there were 1078 reported car accidents from people talking on cell phones, but only 56 from people using hands-free devices"(statistics are off, btw, but you get the idea). Well... if people actually thought about that, and realized that nobody actually uses hand-free cell phones around here, so there are fewer of them on the road, and therefore, fewer to get in accidents... they would realize that that is a skewed statistic. Well... next year it will be illigal to talk on your cell while driving w/o a handsfree... I hate ignorance...

considering the prevalence of statistical evidence used to support legislation... an intro to statistics class, at the least, should be mandatory before registering to vote.

/98% of uninformed voters have not taken a statistics class
//that sounds like a PBN signature.
///...just if you add in a drug reference.
////and remove any semblance of intelligence.

[Lenny]

...98% of uninformed voters have not taken a statistics class...

87.012% of the population do not know why I made this silly post and wasted your time.

[slade]

87.012% of the population do not know why I made this silly post and wasted your time.

and thus 12.988% are intuitive enough to know that you have no life.

[geekwarrior]

did you know that 78% of statistics are wrong?

[koleah]

did you know that 78% of statistics are wrong?

I thought that 78% of statistics were made up on the spot....

[bleachit]

I thought it was 75%...


/searches out old Simpsons episodes

[tribalman]

if 3/4 of all stats are made up on the spot, and 4/3 people have problems with fractions, where does that leave us?