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If the first part of your statement was true someone could read the raw data from another angle and deduce that People with Glasses are more likely to have an auto accident, which makes wearing glasses while driving more dangerous than not wearing them. Right?

Yup, that was the point I was trying to make!

95% is a hard number to beat though...

That reminds me of the report of an investigation into auto accidents in this country some years ago.

The report stated that X percent of accidents involved a car hitting a lamp-post. The conclusion of the report was that "in general, lamp-posts are badly positioned."

You can twist statistics and perverse logic to say almost anything you want them to say.

Paul,
That's a bit of a strange one about the lamp-posts.
Just goes to show doesn't it, never believe statistics, I suppose.

Do you guys have the little "news in brief"
things in the newspapers that quote these statistics, everything from your chances of being run over by a fast moving bus to finding true love, personally they are all one in the same, oops, better not tell the girlfriend about that one!.