Based on the KB poll only 25% of riders ride inside speed limits.

[Insanity_rules]

And the stories are all true, good to find someone to substantiate some of my yarns, I think some people were starting to think they were a bit far fetched

Had about 4 fines in 2 1/2 years all of the swifty spot fine nature....

Kyrgyzstan is the 4 most corrupt country in the world...NZ is in the 3 least.

b. No - do you know how much Viagra costs? - US$26 over the counter without a perscription....I know this cause some of the blokes I work with want to get their monies worth when they go out with several "ladies of negoiatable affection" after they have been at site 4 to 6 weeks.

To all who think that LBD's stories are far fetched.... They are probably downstated. Here is a link to the American state department description of the Kyrgyz Republic http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_p...s/cis_945.html it makes for interesting reading, especially the bit marked crime.

To give you another idea, I thought of traveling to Kyrgyzstan while I was in Kazakhstan a few years back. Got to the border with our papers and invite so we could go in and the border guards (at least I think they were border guards) were looking at my wife like hungry dogs and the only one who spoke english told me that he could easily have me killed at take her for his wife if he felt like it. At this point we politely declined to go into the office with them, retreated to our car and the relative safety of Taraz. When I told our hosts what happened they exclaimed "Oh it must be pay week, the guards arent usually that forward and might be full of vodka".

Compared to the Kyrgyz Republic Kazakhstan is a modern, safe, enlightened, advanced and liberated place. Sorry that border thing peppered my view of the whole place. I've litterally never been so scared in my life.

[TOTO]

The most important rule of statistics that learned was: Corelation does not mean causality !

hence you can NOT assume just because something is similar figures, that one is caused by the other.

Leave the stats to the pros conquestador and just go out and ride your bike and be happy.

[Conquiztador]

The most important rule of statistics that learned was: Corelation does not mean causality !

hence you can NOT assume just because something is similar figures, that one is caused by the other.

Leave the stats to the pros conquestador and just go out and ride your bike and be happy.

That is Conquiztador to you TOTO.

And I was only referring to what this silly poll came up with. At no time have I stated that it was factual, that we can come to any conclusions from this. The only thing I was intrigued by was that the replies indicated that only 25% of the ones who answered stayed inside the speed limit. And also that when I followed it the % stayed the same from almost the start.

I have been involved in some statistic gathering and realise that there is so much more to it then asking a silly question on a web site. We would need to consider how the data was collected, any possible interference that was there. We would need other groups to compare the results with, random sampling is a must, the questions can not be leading, and so it goes on.

Suddenly I remeber why I did not take to statistics.

But what I do find interesting is how some on here has a need to try and explain away the outcome from this...