All fine points, thanks. Still, from a practitioner’s standpoint: add the damn CIs to the bar graph. (Best practice for graphical illustrations actually has moved away from these bar graphs because they can be horribly misleading.)

So, randomness isn’t the issue per se. There are a bunch of characteristics that might render some drivers better than others, environmental factors, and a host of other considerations that might explain why crashes are down. Those are confounds. In this instance, we probably don’t have any of that data, so any sort…

I should note: if a “study” releases findings without clearly communicating descriptive data like sample sizes, effect sizes, standard deviations of said effects, and confidence intervals and omits statistical tests that evaluate whether comparisons are statistically significant, then run, don’t walk, to your backyard…

First question when assessing “scientific” claims: Has the data been publicly release for best-practice purposes of replication?

Fuck that.

Wait, like, a 40k tax? In addition to sticker?

Fuck DJT.

goddamit.

says the sad clown who drives an ILX. smh.

damn, that’s cold. hope things have taken / are taking a turn for the better—i.e. less miles to a better job in a sweet ride!

ho heh ho! nailed it.

were you gun-running between canada and mexico? i mean that’s a lot of miles. explain yourself, soldier.

driving 40k miles just for fun in a papered-over, econo-shitbox conveys a deeply unsettling sense of masochism that indicates an abusive upbringing, like being left in a mid-90s taurus for too many hours or having to sleep in the back of a windstar for a few months. or something. i don’t know. this is really weird,…

STOP WITH THE FUCKING PLASTIC CLADDING ALREADY. U GUYZ ARE RUINING THE SEX WITH ALL TEH PLASTICKS!!!11!!!!!11!!!!1

Might have been said upstream, but the lack of minivan doors is super fucking annoying and undercuts the minimal utility even further.

because PROFIIIIIT

Verily, everyone is fucking confused over this unhappy band of lunatics.