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Originally Posted by MikeHump  I'm not positive, but I thought I saw a statistic somewhere on the news that stated that the majority of motorcycle accidents happened to male riders age 40 and older, while riding cruiser/sport cruiser? I may be wrong on this, but I thought I'd ask how true that statistic is (or if it is even the correct statistic). |
True but you have to take into consideration that the over 40 group is the biggest group out there by a wide margin. The question is, is the accident rate for the 40+ crowd proportionate to their numbers ? Answer is, no it isn't, it's lower than all other groups.
If you have a thousand green men, a hundred blue men and 10 purple men and 50% of each group has been in an accident you can't just spout that green men have one hundred times more accidents than purple men!!!! ( 50% of 1,000= 500, 50% of 10=5, so 500/5=100 )
The statistically correct number to take into account is the probability of any one individual within an age group to be involved in an acident, not the total number of accidents without taking into consideration the size of the group.
Luckily, insurance companies do take this into account and charge this age group lower rates than younger riders. This alone should be an indicator that older riders have a lesser chance of being involved in an accident.