Thought of the Day 06.17.10

I know it’s a bit of a departure, but just for fun, can you identify the flawed reasoning in the following ideas?

The number one killer of children is auto accidents. That’s why we’ve stopped taking our kids with us in the car.

But then we discovered that no children were killed in car accidents last year while riding on the outside of their parent’s car. Now you know why we always have them ride on the hood.

Since statistics tell us that the people most likely to abduct a child already know them or even are family members, we now have a strict policy of only letting our children spend time with strangers.

An insurance study showed that 77% of all car accidents occur within 15 miles of home. We’re really torn whether this means we need to drive super-carefully in our own neighborhood or whether we should just move to a safer one. Both seem like valid options.

My people also perish from lack of training in logic.