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Phil (not verified)    September 16, 2021 - 2:57PM

Same old, same old. No pun intended. UIA ALWAYS occurs more in cars that older people drive. Older people drive Foresters and Outbacks. And Priuses. True, these car have higher reports of UIA. Sometimes 5, 6 and 7 times more! But that is out if 100's of thousands of cars. Ray LaHood, past US secretary of transportation also got confused by this mathematical statistic. Even though mathematically much higher multiple number of cases for a single model, it is mathamatically insignificant. Ray LaHood could not grasp the mathamatical calculations to prove "statistical significance" understood mathematicians. A certain model of car had 15 cases of UIA over 100, 000 cars and another has only 2. Therefore, LaHood concluded over 7x more likely to have UIA if driving that car. But because over 100, 000 cars surveyed, the difference between 2 and 15 is completely meaningless as a %. What does makes by far the biggest and a real significant difference is age. Specifically over 65 yrs of age. People over 65 are 80% more likely to report UIA. Guess what cars they most likely drive?

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