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Old 09-02-2010, 08:51 PM   #11
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Driving above safe speed, or without a seatbelt, is an unnecessary risk.
It's a well established finding in policy research that when people have the choice to wear seatbelts or not, the ones who choose to do so drive more recklessly, on the average, to the point that there is no net gain in safety. It's sort of a psychological analog of Le Chatelier's Principle.

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Old 09-02-2010, 11:13 PM   #12
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It's a well established finding in policy research that when people have the choice to wear seatbelts or not, the ones who choose to do so drive more recklessly, on the average, to the point that there is no net gain in safety. It's sort of a psychological analog of Le Chatelier's Principle.

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I would be interested in reading about this.

Don't you always have the choice not to wear seat belts? This would imply to me that seat belts don't improve safety at all...
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Old 09-03-2010, 12:05 AM   #13
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Don't you always have the choice not to wear seat belts? This would imply to me that seat belts don't improve safety at all.
It's harder to do statistical research on behavior that breaks the law.

The Wikipedia article Seat Belt Legislation cites the basic findings.

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Old 09-03-2010, 12:10 AM   #14
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It's harder to do statistical research on behavior that breaks the law.

The Wikipedia article Seat Belt Legislation cites the basic findings.

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Okay yeah that makes sense. I'm still interested in that policy research.
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Old 09-03-2010, 12:22 AM   #15
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Sir Pudding: Yes, I'm reworking bits and pieces of my Æthereal Sun. The Khæn race is here to stay, but I'm considering some changes, such as making them Daredevils. As for Racial Honesty, it's based on Racial Pacifism. Since they're the only race who have a single culture/state, one could as well call it Racial. Who it means is that they have Honesty when interacting among themselves. They do not have any psychological issue with breaking a law in some other state, but they rarely do (rarer than locals on average!), and are not naïve. And yes, by now there are clues that they've been designed by some precursor race.
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Old 09-03-2010, 07:42 AM   #16
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Sir Pudding: Yes, I'm reworking bits and pieces of my Æthereal Sun. The Khæn race is here to stay, but I'm considering some changes, such as making them Daredevils. As for Racial Honesty, it's based on Racial Pacifism. Since they're the only race who have a single culture/state, one could as well call it Racial. Who it means is that they have Honesty when interacting among themselves. They do not have any psychological issue with breaking a law in some other state, but they rarely do (rarer than locals on average!), and are not naïve. And yes, by now there are clues that they've been designed by some precursor race.
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Old 09-03-2010, 08:01 AM   #17
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It's sort of a psychological analog of Le Chatelier's Principle
There's a similar effect in software development. Better tools and methods don't result in better software. They result in more ambitious, bigger, more complex systems that always remain on the edge of what's controllable. So, there's a constant amount of bugs.

Daredevils will tolerate a higher level of such risk and bugginess. They might well have bigger and more complex software. Similarly for other fields of technology. They've got that edge in aerospace in part because they live closer to the edge. Neutrally stable aircraft are the norm for them for civilians; the military has favored dynamically unstable fighter craft for a long time. They've got better power-to-weight ratios because they get by with less engineering margin or riskier technology. And so on.
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Old 09-03-2010, 03:03 PM   #18
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They do not have any psychological issue with breaking a law in some other state
Since a good part of the Honesty disadvantage is that you won't "go wild" when you aren't home, I don't see how this really only a -20% limitation.
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Old 09-03-2010, 03:14 PM   #19
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Since a good part of the Honesty disadvantage is that you won't "go wild" when you aren't home, I don't see how this really only a -20% limitation.
Point is, they can go wild, even though a supermajority prefers not to.
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Old 09-03-2010, 04:11 PM   #20
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Point is, they can go wild, even though a supermajority prefers not to.
That's my point. "Law abiding, but only at home" isn't a disadvantage worth [-8*]. It's a quirk.
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