Anecdotal evidence.



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Michael Press

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> WILMINGTON, N.Y.Mar 12, 2006(AP)Swedish snowboarder
> Jonatan Johansson died Sunday after falling during a
> snowboardcross run down Whiteface Mountain in the
> Adirondacks.
>
> The 26-year-old Turin Olympics competitor lost control
> on one of his jumps during training for an
> International Ski Federation World Cup competition,
> according to U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Association
> spokesman Tom Kelly.
>
> A state police report said Johansson tried to correct
> himself but landed hard. An autopsy found the cause of
> death to be multiple internal injuries.
>
> Officials said Johansson landed within the course
> boundaries and was wearing a helmet. Olympic Regional
> Development Authority spokesman Sandy Caligiore said he
> did not hit a tree, a pole or any other obstacle. The
> course where Johansson crashed, the Boreen Trail, has
> special snowboardcross features constructed for
> competition.


<http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3257&date=20060313>
> Swedish snowboard star dies in training
>
> Published: 13th March 2006 08:53 CET
>
> Swedish snowboarder Jonatan Johansson died while
> training in Lake Placid in the USA on Sunday. During
> the last training run of the day he fell badly and
> doctors were unable to save his life.
>
> Johansson was the most successful of Sweden's
> snowboarders in the recent Winter Olympics in Turin,
> coming in twelfth place. He was in Lake Placid as part
> of the Swedish World Cup team.
>
> "In the last training run the landing from a jump went
> badly," said snowboard association director Ulf
> Nilsson.
>
> "The jump itself went quite well but something made him
> lean forward, and he fell on the slope with the whole
> of his body weight forward," Nilsson told Svenska
> Dagbladet.
>
> The Swedish team captain Anders Wiggerud, along with
> trainer Lars Bergstedt, were at the scene and
> administered first aid almost immediately. Nearby
> doctors also helped but Johansson never regained
> consciousness.
>
> The exact cause of death had not been established late
> on Sunday evening. However, Nilsson told SvD that it
> was simply an accident and that there were no safety
> problems with the course.
>
> Organisers cancelled the competition. Other members of
> the team were said to be badly shocked and considering
> returning immediately to Sweden.
>
> Jonatan Johansson, who came from Sollentuna but lived
> in Umeˆ€, was 26 years old.


--
Michael Press
 
Not that I should prolong this fray, but are you suggesting that first-hand
accident reports are not relevant? The irony is that they're more
"anecdotal" than the accident referenced in your post, for which there was
obviously an autopsy etc., and thus wasn't truly anecdotal.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles
www.ChainReactionBicycles.com


"Michael Press" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> WILMINGTON, N.Y.Mar 12, 2006(AP)Swedish snowboarder
>> Jonatan Johansson died Sunday after falling during a
>> snowboardcross run down Whiteface Mountain in the
>> Adirondacks.
>>
>> The 26-year-old Turin Olympics competitor lost control
>> on one of his jumps during training for an
>> International Ski Federation World Cup competition,
>> according to U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Association
>> spokesman Tom Kelly.
>>
>> A state police report said Johansson tried to correct
>> himself but landed hard. An autopsy found the cause of
>> death to be multiple internal injuries.
>>
>> Officials said Johansson landed within the course
>> boundaries and was wearing a helmet. Olympic Regional
>> Development Authority spokesman Sandy Caligiore said he
>> did not hit a tree, a pole or any other obstacle. The
>> course where Johansson crashed, the Boreen Trail, has
>> special snowboardcross features constructed for
>> competition.

>
> <http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3257&date=20060313>
>> Swedish snowboard star dies in training
>>
>> Published: 13th March 2006 08:53 CET
>>
>> Swedish snowboarder Jonatan Johansson died while
>> training in Lake Placid in the USA on Sunday. During
>> the last training run of the day he fell badly and
>> doctors were unable to save his life.
>>
>> Johansson was the most successful of Sweden's
>> snowboarders in the recent Winter Olympics in Turin,
>> coming in twelfth place. He was in Lake Placid as part
>> of the Swedish World Cup team.
>>
>> "In the last training run the landing from a jump went
>> badly," said snowboard association director Ulf
>> Nilsson.
>>
>> "The jump itself went quite well but something made him
>> lean forward, and he fell on the slope with the whole
>> of his body weight forward," Nilsson told Svenska
>> Dagbladet.
>>
>> The Swedish team captain Anders Wiggerud, along with
>> trainer Lars Bergstedt, were at the scene and
>> administered first aid almost immediately. Nearby
>> doctors also helped but Johansson never regained
>> consciousness.
>>
>> The exact cause of death had not been established late
>> on Sunday evening. However, Nilsson told SvD that it
>> was simply an accident and that there were no safety
>> problems with the course.
>>
>> Organisers cancelled the competition. Other members of
>> the team were said to be badly shocked and considering
>> returning immediately to Sweden.
>>
>> Jonatan Johansson, who came from Sollentuna but lived
>> in Ume^?, was 26 years old.

>
> --
> Michael Press
 
In article
<[email protected]>,
"Mike Jacoubowsky" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not that I should prolong this fray, but are you suggesting that first-hand
> accident reports are not relevant? The irony is that they're more
> "anecdotal" than the accident referenced in your post, for which there was
> obviously an autopsy etc., and thus wasn't truly anecdotal.


I do not know what you are getting at by discussing the
meanings. The snow board event would qualify as anecdotal
evidence in peer reviewed literature. This report also
qualifies as a statistic.

What can we _infer_ from this report? Same as we can
infer from the cracked helmet reports we read here.

[...]

--
Michael Press
 

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