I read it quickly, and in addition to the height difference, I wondered if age would be a factor since women live longer. Also driving distance - highway vs. parking lots. But thanks Don for the link. They provide the % as well as N so it would be easy to do inferential stats on the proportions.
The % expected seem to come from the percentages of men 60% and women 40% ... So they expected and got 48% for mixed gender accidents - male/female (24%) plus female/male (24%). The fact that the female/female rate was higher than 40 x 40 or 16% (it was over 20%) suggests that actions of both drivers must be considered. Poor decisions in one car and either evasive actions or equally poor decisions on the other. And that the expected 48% from mixed encounters was due to good defensive reactions that mitigated the effects of the poor decision. All this off the top of my head as I am currently having a glass of wine on my deck watching my tomatoes grow :-) From the standpoint of values, you can also have a discussion of stereotypes vis a vis data, and group statistics vs our desire to treat people as individuals. JK Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device from U.S. Cellular -----Original Message----- From: "michael sylvester" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:57:39 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)<[email protected]> Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]>Subject: Re: [tips] Women drivers What is this? an Arhie Bunker upgrade. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: don allen To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 6:13 PM Subject: [tips] Women drivers Those of you teaching stats may want to use this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2012188/Women-drivers-ARE-dangerous-wheel-scientists-discover.html The authors contend that women are worse drivers than men are. Most interesting was the finding that women/women crashes were much higher than expected while men/men crashes were much lower. I'm sure that it will generate a lot of discussion. -Don. Don Allen Retired professor Langara College --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587541&n=T&l=tips&o=11307 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-11307-13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587...@fsulist.frostburg.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.901 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3749 - Release Date: 07/07/11 05:34:00 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454&n=T&l=tips&o=11312 or send a blank email to leave-11312-13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=11316 or send a blank email to leave-11316-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
