[EggsAckley]

Near the bottom of the article, the 'fess up:

“The sad fact, though, is that the injuries really haven’t come down significantly. Whether that’s because there are many more playgrounds in use today and more children using them, I don’t know.”

[lawdude]

"“The sad fact, though, is that the injuries really haven’t come down significantly. Whether that’s because there are many more playgrounds in use today and more children using them, I don’t know.”"

This is obviously written by someone who is a product of the Pubic Skule Cystim!

Well, let's take a look at it! - We get a factual count of the number of kids hurt by playground accidents in 1951 (totally meaningless info alert *** - I was in the 5th grade that year)

Lets say it was 7,240. Hell, I dunno.. looks ok to me.

Now, how many kids were in school that year? Pulling a scientific number from the nether reaches of my anus, I come up with 15,000,000. (This is as accurate as the munber of people killed by second hand smoke...prolly better).


Now, that works out to .0004826666 or .0482666%. See how easy that is, NEA.

Now we take the same numbers for today.

Oh, we can't get those numbers because they are not kept, they include the kids hurt by Uzis and 50 Cal. sniper rifles. And besides, it is an invasion of privacy (you know ... the one found in the Konstitution).

[JoeSchem]

'Risk equilibrium.' When you reduce people's risk, they end up doing riskier things, so that the accident level remains the same. This effect is a real phenomenon observed by highway engineers, who noticed that improving the safety at one intersection caused the accident rate to go up at adjoining intersections.

[tiamat]

EggsAckley wrote:

“The sad fact, though, is that the injuries really haven’t come down significantly. Whether that’s because there are many more playgrounds in use today and more children using them, I don’t know.”

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I think a lot of that is because children are SO over-protected that they have no chance to grow some caution or common sense.

Kids ALWAYS find a way to nail themselves, and you cannot overwatch or protect them from EVERYTHING no matter WHAT you do

end result? When they nail themselves now they REALLLY do it up right!

Tia

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I was wondering if the accident rate wasn't affected. Kids will find trouble no matter what. Until they hear about friends getting hurt, it will not stop.