Moderator Comment:

Hey Fellows,

Let's get back on track. It's not Friday anymore. I'm sure there's an
insurance forum out there where this is happily discussed.

Or pmail me. I used to be a fire and casualty agent a long, long time
ago.

Cheers,

BenT
Sent from my mobile device

On Mar 6, 2010, at 12:54 PM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET> wrote:

> 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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