Comments on: Stiff Ontario Traffic Laws Working? 30% Decrease in Fatalities http://blog.legalaction.ca/stiff-ontario-traffic-laws-working-30-decrease-in-fatalities/ YOU CAN FIGHT BACK! TAKE ACTION...LEGAL ACTION Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:57:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Legal Action Blog » Blog Archive » Judge #2 Slams Stunt-Driving Law http://blog.legalaction.ca/stiff-ontario-traffic-laws-working-30-decrease-in-fatalities/comment-page-1/#comment-3561 Legal Action Blog » Blog Archive » Judge #2 Slams Stunt-Driving Law Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:15:59 +0000 http://blog.legalaction.ca/?p=117#comment-3561 [...] province maintains the speed-racing law is an important public safety initiative that saves lives and will continue to be enforced despite this second [...] [...] province maintains the speed-racing law is an important public safety initiative that saves lives and will continue to be enforced despite this second [...]

]]> By: Mike http://blog.legalaction.ca/stiff-ontario-traffic-laws-working-30-decrease-in-fatalities/comment-page-1/#comment-2828 Mike Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:34:00 +0000 http://blog.legalaction.ca/?p=117#comment-2828 Theres an old saying about stats, have 2, you can make a line, have 3 and theres a trend. Frankly they are mismatching stats to match there agenda, and while it makes for good politics, it is not fact. First, this correlation does not prove cause and effect, and second, it is not a big enough sample, things can vary very much between 1 year and another due to simple factors such as weather, gas prices, the way the wind is blowing for gods sakes could effect the stats for one year vs the last. Come back and tell me what the stats are for 5-10 years of this law is in effect, and tell me stats and *prove cause and effect*, not simplly correlation which could be due to other factors. Then come talk to me about how its working so great(which it won't be). Hopefully though we won't ever have tje stats for this due to the laws being thrown out due to being unconstutional. Mike Theres an old saying about stats, have 2, you can make a line, have 3 and theres a trend. Frankly they are mismatching stats to match there agenda, and while it makes for good politics, it is not fact. First, this correlation does not prove cause and effect, and second, it is not a big enough sample, things can vary very much between 1 year and another due to simple factors such as weather, gas prices, the way the wind is blowing for gods sakes could effect the stats for one year vs the last.

Come back and tell me what the stats are for 5-10 years of this law is in effect, and tell me stats and *prove cause and effect*, not simplly correlation which could be due to other factors. Then come talk to me about how its working so great(which it won’t be). Hopefully though we won’t ever have tje stats for this due to the laws being thrown out due to being unconstutional.

Mike

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