Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA

bad sector wrote on Wed, 29 May 2024 19:30:36 -0400 :

You're not going to find that supposed direct effect in the actual facts.

 
Technically that is correct because accident statistics limited to
reported accidents cannot in any way be linked to any data limited to
general cell-phone ownership. Yet legislators are nixing TV in the front
seat but not digital displays 'not necessary' to operation (replacing
necessary steam-gauge dials); they have climbed down from the tree and
are now walking on three, a few more miles to go.

Now you're beginning to use your head, which is a welcome change for all.

The fact is that there is no evidence in the reliable accident statistics
that the accident rate changed during the period of meteoric cellphone
ownership saturation levels. That's not an opinion. That's just a fact.

As you saw from the UConn cite, the unsupportable hysteria against
cellphone use has tricked people into thinking something that isn't.
 <https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/law_review/8/>

So there are really two issues to learn from this specific fact.
1. Cellphones aren't as dangerous as people think they are, and,
2. People will believe anything without ever checking the facts.

That's why the myth persists.

My goal here is to simply ask people to factcheck their own myths for once.