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Your sample size is too low to draw meaningful conclusions. A sample size of 2 is susceptible to random chance greatly influencing the outcomes.


Everybody realises that. This was a thought experiment not a clinical trial.


But it's a useless thought experiment. It neither informs nor enlightens. It's garbage in, garbage out.


No it isn't.

The purpose was to show the effects that car over-reliance has on public safety and quality of life.

In the second scenario, everyone thinks the roads are too dangerous for kids (becuase they are, as evidenced by half of them getting killed) so they all drive their kids to school in oversized heavy vehicles making the roads even more dangerous.




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