[yoda222]

> Then it goes on to say, that Sweden does use rear-facing seats as though that somehow proves that there is a statistical significance

The studies you are referring to (the retracted and the non conclusive one) are two studies based on past data on real road. They did compare existing numbers and yes, there was no statistical significance due to the reduced sample (according to the article, I didn't check personnaly ;-) ).

If the article had stopped there on that part, you would be correct. But there was more. You missed the part about the sled test study (There is a direct link to the study in the article. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3217519/)

And that study is statistically significant for all but one type of injury:

> The best RF restraints (RF EURO) clearly outperformed the best FF restraints (FF EURO) when comparing injury measures. There were statistically significant differences at all injury measures except chest 3ms clip

[icc97]

Yeah, you're quite right. Should have read closer, I had read all the way through as they finished again talking about child seats.

In my (rather weak) defence, they have conflicting evidence over child seats, so it still seems incorrect to focus on that one aspect.