A New Entry for the Sloth Glossary: The -5 Sloth

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Scott en Aztlán <newsgroup> wrote:
>On 3 Apr 2006 19:12:48 -0700, "Old Wolf" >
>wrote:
>
>>> How would a "high speedo" make a car look better in CRASH stats?
>>
>>There's a couple of assumptions:
>> 1) The driver uses the speedo to adjust his speed
>> 2) Driving slower means you will have fewer crashes,
>>
>>If you take those as given, then the high speedo (eg. speedo
>>that says you are doing 75 when you are doing 65) will result
>>in having fewer crashes than other cars that are actually going 75.
>
>And if you start with the assumption that 1 + 1 = 2, you can prove
>that I am the Pope.

I'd like to see you do it, Your Holiness.
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