[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/extraneous text from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] Off course, the difficulty is deeper than that. It would also be necessary to know what percentage of the people who didn't die were wearing PFDs. In whitewater, it's VERY rare to see a kayaker without a PFD on. So I would imagine that the majority of deaths in ww would involve people wearing PFDs. In your sea Kayaker study, it would be interesting to know what percentage of "sea Kayakers" are wearing PFDs. If 85% of Kayakers are wearing them, and they only account for 56% of deaths, then it would suggest that you're better off with them that without... I'm not saying that the case, just that those numbers alone leave something to be desired when drawing conclusions about their effectiveness. I almost always wear mine in my seakayak. Always in the whitewater. Sometimes in the surf. Geoff Jennings 619-336-2444 800-322-SEDA geoff_at_sedakayak.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Apr 24 2003 - 09:20:51 PDT
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