Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:54:34 -0600
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From: Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject: Re: Friday question
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Unfortunately, I don't have a citation at hand, but will look for reports on the matter. I know I read a report in Scientific American, which of course is not a primary source, but articles therein are drawn from research done by the authors. I've also read at least one report in Science News, a magazine that summarizes recent reports. The data in both cases were from insurance statistics, from driving records, and from surveys, but were reported in the fashion of accidents per mile driven and so on. Scientific American is generally considered the tops of popular science reporting. Given that the original reports were in peer reviewed journals (the only kind that Science News draws from, and the place that authors of Scientific American articles publish their original studies), I am sure that proper controls were used to adjust for miles driven, times of day, traffic conditions and so on. Otherwise, the report would not have been in Scientific American.
DMc
---- Don Hundt <finishguy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave,
> I've always heard that about female drivers, but I've never seen an
> actual study. I'd be interested in the methodology used to arrive at
> those conclusions. Did the researchers take into account actual miles
> driven, or did they just take insurance statistics on the rate of
> accidents and tickets, men versus women? My assumption would be that
> there are more miles logged by men than women, that could certainly
> skew the data.
> Don
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On Mar 6, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:
>
> > women are better drivers than we are. They have lower accident
> > rates, cause less vehicle failure, and generate less stress in
> > passengers (documented by research, don't have citation handy).
> >
> > My wife prefers for me to drive, simply because she gets to rest.
> > But, she'll drive if I request it, and she does offer. I drive more
> > than she does, but we both put in a substantial fraction of the
> > miles. That holds with whichever vehicle we are using. since
> > neither of us considers driving to be a sport, neither of us feels
> > shortchanged if the other one drives. When she drives, I get to
> > read. I seldom sleep in the passenger role.
> >
> > David McNeely
> >
> >
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