Re: Experiment abandoned

In article <h5ihni$ba8$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Chris Malcolm)
wrote:

Terry <tenzin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Head trauma is probably not as simplistic as your proposed
experiment appears to assume.

The fact that falling over from a standing position and hitting
one's head on a flat hard surface such as a pavement can sometimes
result in death due to brain injury is often taken as the critical
cranial impact threshold which helmets, air bags, and other crash
proofing measures should keep impacts under. But as boxers very well
know, people vary very considerably in their resistance to the effects
of a blow on the head.

We humans are a big bag of contradictions, physical and mental, and our approach to
risk sums it up, running the gamut from huge investment in negligible risk to
denial of self-evident risks.
.

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