"chris" wrote in message
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On 19/01/2016 04:17, Lewis wrote:
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Jack Black wrote:
Finally, after years of looking, they found proof that texting causes
accidents!

You are very confused.

Overall, the hospitalization rate in those states declined by 7 percent
versus states with no bans, the researchers report in the American
Journal
of Public Health.

Global Warming prevents piracy. News at 11.

You're the one who's confused. The study mentioned is not based on
correlations, unlike the jokey (negative) correlation between Global
Warming and piracy (at sea) you're alluding to.

The study make several explicit regression models to test whether
different factors have an affect on car crash related hospitalisations.
They found that texting bans, handheld bans, seatbelt laws and graduate
licensing laws all had a measurable and significant decrease in the
hospitalisation rates.

Likewise high speed limits and illegal blood alcohol levels had
significant increases in hospitalisation rates.

Gas prices, per capita income and unemployment rates had no effect.

When gas prices didn’t, the entire 'analysis' is dubious because
that must have some effect on the traffic volume on the roads.
Yes, plenty of traffic like to and from work will continue anyway,
but some traffic is optional and even with travel to and from
work, they will be more car sharing and use of public transport
with the higher gas prices.

All of which makes perfect sense.

Not the gas prices.

The original article is he
http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...PH.2014.302537