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Hi folks,

This is entertaining but please continue on Friday. It's already
Sunday in some parts of the world. Original stop request 1:23pm PST.

Thanks,

BenT
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On Mar 6, 2010, at 5:58 PM, chris and/or ruth <populuxe59@YAHOO.COM>
wrote:

> 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