[lit-ideas] Re: The Perils Of Teaching Women How To Read
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:09:22 -0800 (PST)
--- On Sun, 27/12/09, Veronica Caley <molleo1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Women drivers? They're safer than men - Science- msnbc.com
Such "science" wouldn't show their driving not to be atrocious [even if it were
judged less atrocious than men's]; nor would it even show that they are
technically better drivers than men - merely, perhaps, that they take less
levels of risk. The class of persons with the safest driving record in terms of
insurance costs they incur are, obviously, those (of either gender) who do not
drive at all; the amount of driving undertaken would have to be factored into
any assessment of safest in terms of insurance pay-outs which would have to be
based on damage caused per miles driven. That women have less insurance claims
made against them may be only because they frequently damage parked, empty cars
then quickly drive off so they cannot be identified, or when identified bat
their lashes at empty headed males who then decline to take further action
because of misguided notions of chivalry. Fact.
And this is aside from the lack of clear statistics explaining how their
driving correlates with the relative knocking down of gays and straights.
Donal
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