Fun With Stats

[Japher]

Taking my online Traffic School. Came across these "Positive Stats"

A. According to research by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 27,675 lives were saved between 1975 and 2009 due to minimum drinking age laws.

And how many more would be save if we lowered the minimum drinking age to 15? Really? What the hell does this stat prove?

B. In 1982, 35 percent of all drivers involved in fatal traffic crashes had a BAC of .08 percent or higher. In 2008, just 22 percent of all drivers involved in fatal crashes had a BAC of .08 percent or higher.

Does this just go to show that people are learning to drive drunk? Or is it proving that even sober idiots cause accidents too?

C. From 1982 to 1999, the number of young drivers who died in an alcohol-related traffic crash in which another young driver was involved decreased by 62 percent.

Does this conflict with A?

D. Due to new minimum drinking age laws, lower BAC laws, and activist groups such as MADD and SADD, countless lives are being saved each year. By educating our children on the dangers of drinking and driving, we should be able to lower the number of impaired driving incidents even more...

If they're "countless" how the heck is this a stat?

People are stupid, and stupid people drink. Don't drink and drive, and don't belive stupid stats.

That is all.

[Felch]

MADD is my arch-nemesis.

[loinburger]

I figured you more for a stoned driver than a drunk driver

[PLATO]

MADD is my arch-nemesis.

In College we used to kid about forming DAMM

Drunks Against Mad Mothers...somehow it never took off though......

[Felch]

I figured you more for a stoned driver than a drunk driver

I am, but I still don't like the moralizing do-gooders.

[Dr Strangelove]

I am, but I still don't like the moralizing do-gooders.

Isn't that what rifles are for?

[Felch]

I like how you think, Doc.

[SlowwHand]

You've misinterpreted point "A".