Comments on: Research dear, research http://timworstall.com/2009/10/10/research-dear-research/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:45:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Remittance Man http://timworstall.com/2009/10/10/research-dear-research/comment-page-1/#comment-35424 The Remittance Man Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:00:38 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=10169#comment-35424 Richard Hammond is also considerably shorter than the other presenters; isn't restricted growth considered a disability? Richard Hammond is also considerably shorter than the other presenters; isn’t restricted growth considered a disability?

]]> By: Blind Steve http://timworstall.com/2009/10/10/research-dear-research/comment-page-1/#comment-35411 Blind Steve Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:51:33 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=10169#comment-35411 Well now hold on just a mo there. Even taking the highest figure of the UK population that would count as "Disabled" according to the UK Disability Discrimination Act, it only amounts to a total of 15% of the population. Even if we accept that one single program (and why this particular one I have no idea) should indeed be representative, we must then accept it actually is. DDA definitions include people with learning difficulties or brain injuries. Hammond makes up 33.3% of the presenting team. Therefore according the legal definition Top Gear is more than representative. Well now hold on just a mo there. Even taking the highest figure of the UK population that would count as “Disabled” according to the UK Disability Discrimination Act, it only amounts to a total of 15% of the population.

Even if we accept that one single program (and why this particular one I have no idea) should indeed be representative, we must then accept it actually is.

DDA definitions include people with learning difficulties or brain injuries. Hammond makes up 33.3% of the presenting team. Therefore according the legal definition Top Gear is more than representative.

]]> By: john malpas http://timworstall.com/2009/10/10/research-dear-research/comment-page-1/#comment-35348 john malpas Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:29:44 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=10169#comment-35348 And they should drive only slow cars as so many car drivers do not drive fast one. Have they ever raced a nissan micra? we need more equality and all that stuff. That's what we need. ( though who wants to copy british society as it is now) And they should drive only slow cars as so many car drivers do not drive fast one.
Have they ever raced a nissan micra?
we need more equality and all that stuff. That’s what we need.
( though who wants to copy british society as it is now)

]]> By: Jackart http://timworstall.com/2009/10/10/research-dear-research/comment-page-1/#comment-35334 Jackart Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:03:19 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=10169#comment-35334 Top Gear also did a feature on the fastest disabled drivers. And Kiff (I think) the one-armed soundman got a drive in competition against German Top Gear. I watch a lot of Dave. Top Gear also did a feature on the fastest disabled drivers. And Kiff (I think) the one-armed soundman got a drive in competition against German Top Gear.

I watch a lot of Dave.

]]> By: El Draque http://timworstall.com/2009/10/10/research-dear-research/comment-page-1/#comment-35330 El Draque Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:57:38 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=10169#comment-35330 The BBC Security correspondent is in a wheelchair (Gardner?) and is regularly onscreen. But of course, he's not representing a so-called "community" so that doesn't count. The BBC Security correspondent is in a wheelchair (Gardner?) and is regularly onscreen. But of course, he’s not representing a so-called “community” so that doesn’t count.

]]> By: David Gillies http://timworstall.com/2009/10/10/research-dear-research/comment-page-1/#comment-35310 David Gillies Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:44:37 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=10169#comment-35310 If Linda Bellos really wants to fight the stereotyping of angry lesbians she could go a long way by not conforming to the popular prejudice of what one constitutes in every, single particular. As for people with life-challenging disabilities driving cars: a person very, very close to my heart has struggled against enormous odds to be a thoroughly capable driver of a wide range of motor vehicles, and withal utterly unaware of a Linda Bellos and, dare I say, comprehensively innocent of the necessity of a world with her in it. If Linda Bellos really wants to fight the stereotyping of angry lesbians she could go a long way by not conforming to the popular prejudice of what one constitutes in every, single particular.

As for people with life-challenging disabilities driving cars: a person very, very close to my heart has struggled against enormous odds to be a thoroughly capable driver of a wide range of motor vehicles, and withal utterly unaware of a Linda Bellos and, dare I say, comprehensively innocent of the necessity of a world with her in it.

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