Woman on woman vehicular violence
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/bat...ry?id=13841063
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Researchers who studied thousands of traffic accidents over a 20-year period came up with a finding that even they found surprising: Female drivers are far more likely to run into a car driven by another woman than a man.
The study is bound to add fuel to the debate over whether men are better drivers than women, but the researchers insist that was not their intent, and the study falls short of supporting that conclusion.
Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute, who is lead author of the study published in the Traffic Injury Prevention journal, said in a telephone interview that he and his colleague, Brandon Schoettle, wanted to determine if there is a gender interaction component in traffic accidents. They did indeed find it, he said, but they didn't expect the difference between men and women drivers to be nearly as great as the research indicates.
He called the difference "astounding."
the gory bits
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The researchers examined police reports of two-vehicle traffic accidents across the country from 1988 to 2007 and they zeroed in on the cases in which the drivers of both vehicles could "potentially" determine the gender of the other driver in the moments before the crash. The accidents occurred during "personal travel" and since men drive about 60 percent of the time compared to 40 percent by women, the researchers assumed men would be involved in more accidents than women.
The "expected" percentage of accidents in which both drivers were men should be around 36 percent, but the chances that a woman would run into another woman was expected to be less than 16 percent, because women drive less than men.
Those expectations turned out to be so far out of whack that the researchers themselves could hardly believe it.
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Crashes involving two female drivers were "overrepresented" in five out of six different crash scenarios: Variations on crossing another vehicle's path, side-swiping, turning in front of another vehicle, and head on. But here's the baffling part - when both vehicles were driven by a female, the crashes exceeded the expected frequency by at least 50 percent in two scenarios, and more than 25 percent in three others.
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Chick magnetism surely
#in before Gregosi
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sigh........... im going to have to be the one to make a joke about woman drivers arent i..........
of course women drivers are more likely to get into crashes with each other. why wouldnt a bad driver be more likely to hit another bad driver.
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Originally Posted by
Centurion1
sigh........... im going to have to be the one to make a joke about woman drivers arent i..........
It's your life, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Just say 'no, I won't do that"
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This has nothing to do with driving ability. Women just secretly hate each other. :yes:
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So that means the EU ruling that insurance fees cannot discriminate between men and women was right all along? (Young men being the other notorious bad drivers)
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Fascinating stuff, a bit like a Freakonomics chapter in the making. Something tells me that time of day may have something to do with the particular incidence of various types of crashes. Don't ask me what that 'something' would be though.
Let's not give up on this one for now. Any other suggestions?
AII
P.S. I'd crash into that girl in the pic any time
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BRIGHT COLORS
ROAD HEAD
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Strike For The South
BRIGHT COLORS
Oh, I love that one. :kiss:
AII
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Bah, the best woman vs woman violence is mud wrestling.
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Hosakawa Tito
Bah, the best woman vs woman violence is mud wrestling.
Violence is always bad (lost a moi vs woman mud wrestling)
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Originally Posted by
Adrian II
Fascinating stuff, a bit like a Freakonomics chapter in the making. Something tells me that time of day may have something to do with the particular incidence of various types of crashes. Don't ask me what that 'something' would be though.
Let's not give up on this one for now. Any other suggestions?
AII
P.S. I'd crash into that girl in the pic any time
Natural feminine vindictivesness? "that bitch cut me off"
Say, is Secura around at the moment? :hide:
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Another clue might be location.
How many of these girl on girl crashes occurred within a 1 mile range of IKEA?
AII
