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Greenbank said:So, we've proven that in impacts that lead to no injuries at all, helmets successfully slightly lessen the temporary and very mild pain, and do not contribute to more injuries. Also note that in such a test a thick wooly jumper performs best.
Unless you're expecting to wildly extrapolate from this data and claim that helmets will always reduce the severity of injuries in every type of accident. In which case one can also extrapolate the wooly jumper data point and claim that this will perform even better than a helmet in reducing both the number and severity of injuries.
Of course, this experiment suffers from the same problems as the experiment suggested by Crankarm before. In order to test whether the helmet does indeed prevent or reduce minor (or even major) injuries, one has to be willing to subject oneself to those injuries. I'm guessing there'll be no takers for that.
I think when there is an impact no matter what the speed, it will be lessened even slightly with a cushion of something. Like Iv said before, only some or even a minority of impacts, but you seem to insist on including every type of accident, which isnt what I am talking about.
So do the test until some injury occurs without any protection, if you want?
Personally I dont need to try that as Im pretty sure of the outcome.