Allegory wrote:
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Thank you boys, for proving my point beyond any reasonable doubt.
Do you know how to read a simple statistic sheet? Christ, why am I asking this?
Except that those statistics represent involvement in crashes and not causes.
It also doesn't take into account the number of drivers of each sex (there could simply be a higher percentage of male drivers and thus more accidents involving them).
Way to fail at understanding statistics.
Um... Except you obviously either didn't read the chart, or didn't understand it. It very clearly listed each sex by number and represented accidents as a ratio to that number. So yeah. It *did* take into account the higher percentage of male drivers on the road (which, if you look at the numbers isn't really that much higher).
Your first point is valid though. I also noticed it said something like "drivers in accidents", not drivers "causing accidents". I'm not sure how significant that really is though, if all you really care about is whether you're more statistically likely to be in an accident with a woman or a man behind the wheel. The most sigificant factor was brought up in the same post with the statistics. The chart doesn't say anything about total time to accident ratio, or miles to accident. If a larger percentage of the women are getting into accidents while driving a block away to the grocery store, and a larger percentage of the men getting into accidents while commuting across town (or even working as a driver - exactly what ratio of men to women are in businesses like taxi drivers, delivery drivers, and trucking?), the total number of accidents per-driver might not even come close to being representative of the actual odds per minute/mile of getting into a crash.
I have to say that purely anecdotally, I tend to see a lot more men doing "stupid stuff" on the freeway (like swerving 3 lanes over when they realize they've missed their exit) then women, but I've been nearly run over many many many times more often in parking lots by women who either can't or don't watch where they're driving those roadboats they drive. I'm thinking it all evens out somehow...