Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.net to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agoWhy don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people?message-squaremessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down110
arrow-up1100arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't passanger airplanes come with parachutes for people?Sunny' 🌻@slrpnk.net to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squareswiftcasty@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·7 months agoIn other words (and more neutrally), there have not been any randomized controlled trials of parachute intervention, so we do not have data to say whether they would work or not.
minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-27 months agoImagine being part of that experiment. “Here’s your parachute. Hope you aren’t part of the control group!”
In other words (and more neutrally), there have not been any randomized controlled trials of parachute intervention, so we do not have data to say whether they would work or not.
Imagine being part of that experiment.
“Here’s your parachute. Hope you aren’t part of the control group!”