Has Scientific American done this study post cell phone??
In my unscientific study I notice 80% of women are on the phone while driving. Really. Men? maybe 20%� and they seem worse at driving when on phone than women but they are both hazardous to our health and safety.
I never asked my wife how she drove in traffic while on the phone with the 4-speed.
Chris C
GB, Wisconsin
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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