XPost: comp.mobile.ipad, comp.mobile.android   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-01, Liam O'Connor  wrote:   
   > On 1 Mar 2014 03:24:19 GMT, Jolly Roger wrote:   
   >   
   >> Until there is a way to measure it, you're question has no sufficient   
   >> answer.   
   >   
   > Hmmmmmm....   
   >   
   > Why can't we find charts of overall cell phone ownership in the last   
   > (say) ten years.   
   >   
   > And then we overlay overall accident statistics onto that same timeline?   
   >   
   > I'm guessing there will be a DROP in accidents, but, even if it rises,   
   > I'm guessing that the rise will not even be close to that of the   
   > cellphone useage.   
   >   
   > Which would mean, even if it rises, that it's only a teeeny tiny   
   > percentage of people who are having accidents due to cellphone   
   > use, yet, the entire populace is under the legal restrictions   
   > which, up until yesterday, included turning them into criminals   
   > for using GPS in California while stopped on a road checking   
   > for a way around traffic in LA.   
   >   
   > Using pure logic, these cellphone laws would make absolutely no   
   > sense, if what I think true statistics will show.   
      
   Pesky correlation & causation yet again. You have a real problem with   
   that, eh?   
      
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