@cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow It's an epidemic in the sense that people do it all the time.
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Replying to @mvandevander
@mvandevander@Jonathan_Blow That would not be considered an epidemic, but a trend.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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Replying to @mvandevander
@mvandevander I haven't studied, but if they have definitively shown that obesity is a health problem, then it _is_ an epidemic.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cmuratori
@mvandevander Using a cell phone while driving is not a health problem so sayeth the data, so we should not consider it an "epidemic".2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori It's just distracting, but lots of things are distracting when you're driving.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @mvandevander
@mvandevander My suspicion is that people who would be distracted by texting would have been distracted by something else.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@mvandevander Ergo, the phone is just the current thing that would cause them to crash, but without it, it would have been, eg., the radio.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mvandevander Or something on the side of the road, or just plain spacing out. So blaming the phones is a complete red herring.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mvandevander I can't really think of another way to explain how you go from having _zero_ of something to having _everyone_ have it...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@mvandevander ... and yet the accident rate doesn't change, and the fatality rate plummets.
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