Dui = pos

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Dr. Zaus

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DUI's aren't necessarily the cause of those accidents, and I'm a bit skeptical about that stat in the first place.

No doubt there can be a common cause of the death and drinking... such as the person involved being a sack of crap.

but then that would mean I'll run into people for not wanting to pay my debt.


So i'm going to say what you are staying lacks both internal logic and therefore must be backed up by a data-set of some kind.
 

Whisper

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No doubt there can be a common cause of the death and drinking... such as the person involved being a sack of crap.

but then that would mean I'll run into people for not wanting to pay my debt.


So i'm going to say what you are staying lacks both internal logic and therefore must be backed up by a data-set of some kind.

I'm pretty sure you'd agree that setting up a true experimental manipulation of the effects of alcohol consumption on traffic fatalities would be slightly unethical. Run all the fancy structural equation modeling you want, but that particular setup ain't getting IRB approval.

Heck, even the research that's existent on DUI can't fully agree on how to operationalize "impairment."

And no, working for a professor as an indentured servant doesn't count with respect to debt forgiveness. If it did, all of us doctoral students would have our loans erased.
 

SphinxnihpS

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No doubt there can be a common cause of the death and drinking... such as the person involved being a sack of crap.

but then that would mean I'll run into people for not wanting to pay my debt.


So i'm going to say what you are staying lacks both internal logic and therefore must be backed up by a data-set of some kind.

DixyCat, Disreali. Disreali, Moron. You are getting a lot of introductions today.

Any figures as into the 20%+ range start to include alcohol impairment below the legal limit, which is already laughably low.