Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blood alcohol test assumptions

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was MERGE. dbenbenn | talk 16:53, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Blood alcohol test assumptions
A rant about the fairness of tests used to ascertain if a person is under the influence of alcohol. Points out the obvious: human variability introduces a margin of error into medical tests. Has no business being in Wikipedia, though a (heavily edited) sentence or two might be worth adding to the appropriate articles on blood-alcohol testing. jdb &#x274b; 04:42, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * As far as I know they take into account variability of people in breathalyzer tests. Merge a mention of possible errors in a few sentences into Blood alcohol content and delete. Why isn't there a breathalyzer article? Mgm|(talk) 08:39, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. There's no reason for this information to not be under Blood alcohol content. --TenOfAllTrades 13:42, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * FWIW a bit of history of the article. About a year ago, this was 80% of the content of drunk driving. Obviously it leaned towards POV, and wasn't central to the issue, so I spun it off (GFDL and all). Also, this was within my first month at Wikipedia, so I might have taken more drastic measures if I had been more experienced. It was also verbatim from another Website, although someone claimed to have gotten permission. And, no, they absolutely do NOT account for variability when it comes to BAC--they use a test to get a number, and everything following obeys that number--it doesn't matter that some people are better drivers, and can pass all field sobriety tests at .30 or higher, while others fail at .06--the number rules, not the level of impairment. I've been reluctant to start the breathalyzer article because it is actually a trademark for a specific brand of breath test device or alcohol breath test device, and who knows what the ideal title is. Niteowlneils 15:57, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and Delete. Any useful, NPOV information should be merged with Blood alcohol content. There are no sources and it seems much more like a rant than a legitimate article. Carrp | Talk 16:03, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Blood alcohol content, no redirect. Megan1967 05:45, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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