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Lies, damned lies, and statistics [1]. You can cherry-pick a piece of stats to support any opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...

“Safer” is an opinion or analysis. “There are fewer fatal car accidents overall” and “There are more Fatal accidents per mile driven.” are facts.

Yes, but what people pay attention to are the conclusions, not the facts.

But those are both facts - less people are driving, but if you do drive you're more likely to be in an accident. Are those conclusions? Would a presentation of facts just be the data itself?

Are you more likely to be in an accident? Or are you more likely to be in an accident with a fatality?

It seems like heavy rush-hour traffic is prone to creating a large number of accidents with a low total number of fatalities. When I drive around now, I believe the risk of accident per mile is significantly lower (city dweller used to typically packed city roads), but due to higher speeds, I can’t make the same claim about lower fatality risk.

Maybe there are not 2 points of view but 1 nuanced