Re: Raisin heading home

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<1146633179.886821.57960@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
amit.ghosh@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Tom Kunich wrote:


This is why I don't like helmets. Before helmets the first thing a falling
person thought about was to protect his head. Now people DON'T think about
it. "*** man, that's what I got a helmet for." I'm glad I learned to ride
motorcycles and crash before there were helmets.

you're a fucking idiot. NO ONE thinks like that.

Everyone thinks like that. It is well substantiated in the
literature. It is universally and thunderingly denied
everywhere else. People adjust their behavior to their own
level of risk assessment and risk taking. In all
situations they adjust upward their risk taking when
provided with measures they believe will ameliorate the
harmful consequences of contrary eventualities.

when you can react, for instance when there's a crash in front of you
it's often just a close call or a little tangle.

when you really do go down, it happens in an instant, before you can
react. the idea that you can develop your instincts so you remember to
protect your head in realistic crash scenarios is wishful thinking.

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Michael Press
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