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You sound like someone who has learned to critique scientific papers, but hasn't learned enough about how to actually improve on their methods. You sound like an absolute dick.
The paper shows vehicle height contributing to more serious outcomes. You could infer that the weight of the vehicle is correlates with vehicle height and therefore the mass of the collision is incorporated in the data. Vehicle height has the added benefit of also incorporating collision strength as pedestrians can't fall on the hood of the car and have that absorb some of the impact. There are huge vehicles that will probably hit me right in the head on a collision which would further contribute to the severity of the impact.
You sound like someone who lacks the reading comprehension to perceive that I differentiated the underlying science from the article's presentation. So, you resorted to ad hominem while explaining vehicle physics to someone with a mechanical engineering degree with automotive specialty.
You're not talking science, you're being nitpicky, condescending, and pedantic.
You can talk science when you bring out the math, demonstrating the scale of differences of vehicle weight on the acceleration of a pedestrian, or when you have published your own safety study.