17-11-2019, 02:27 PM
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Women are best
Women are better drivers than men. It's official.
Now I know you chaps might not agree, but the figures show that women are FOUR times less likely to go to court, and half as likely to make an insurance claim.
Figures show 539,000 drivers were in court last year - and 79% of them were MEN.
Also, 25% of these men were caught speeding.Men were also FIVE times more likely to be done for drink driving and three times more likely to be driving without insurance.
Also, in a survey 20% of men admitted skipping red lights, compared with 15% of women.
But . . women were more likely to eat at the wheel and 14% had driven barefoot.
The survey was carried out by Confused.com and the motoring editor there said: "The debate about who are better drivers has been impossible to settle until now. There can be confusion about men paying higher car insurance prices, but if you go by the data, women are the safer drivers, which means cheaper insurance costs."
So there you are fellas. Like it or lump it. Us ladies are best.
17-11-2019, 03:07 PM
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Re: Women are best
There's nothing like having a chuckle at those who come to conclusions from a somewhat curious data set.Did you know, for example, that a child who is averagely good at maths at the the age of 10 has a statistically very high chance of attaining a grade A in Urdu at GCSE? Or, at least this was the case about 20 years ago when I was using a bit of underhand regression analysis on my performance management form to convince the powers that be that I did indeed deserve my annual increment.
17-11-2019, 03:10 PM
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Re: Women are best
Originally Posted by Mups
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Women are better drivers than men. It's official. women are FOUR times less likely to go to court
half as likely to make an insurance claim.
Your assertion or that of the article is an extremely curious one.
Imagine that racing cars became part of the Olympic Games.
What you're suggesting is that we should select the "best driver" by looking at the number of times they've been to court or had insurance claims ! Rather than actually look at whether they can handle a car.
I submit that the information posted doesn't in any sense identify which sex are the "best drivers" but rather highlights which are the more conforming drivers and the safer drivers.
Regardless the fact remains that 90% of the instances where there is an undesirable event whist I am driving, the cause is a female driver. Either driving too slow, not positioning the car correctly in the lane, not positioning the care correctly when waiting to turn right, not being in the right lane on a roundabout, not indicating and generally oblivious to the cars and other people around them.
Sure, there are tons of men driving at speed, racing with each other, tail gating and so on but let's be brutally honest, they very much CAN handle a car and are very aware of who and what is around them.
17-11-2019, 03:14 PM
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Re: Women are best
Originally Posted by Mups
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Women are better drivers than men. It's official. Now I know you chaps might not agree, but the figures show that women are FOUR times less likely to go to court, and half as likely to make an insurance claim.
Figures show 539,000 drivers were in court last year - and 79% of them were MEN.
Also, 25% of these men were caught speeding.Men were also FIVE times more likely to be done for drink driving and three times more likely to be driving without insurance.
Also, in a survey 20% of men admitted skipping red lights, compared with 15% of women.
But . . women were more likely to eat at the wheel and 14% had driven barefoot.
The survey was carried out by Confused.com and the motoring editor there said: "The debate about who are better drivers has been impossible to settle until now. There can be confusion about men paying higher car insurance prices, but if you go by the data, women are the safer drivers, which means cheaper insurance costs."
So there you are fellas. Like it or lump it. Us ladies are best.
17-11-2019, 03:16 PM
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Re: Women are best
Originally Posted by Realist
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Regardless the fact remains that 90% of the instances where there is an undesirable event whist I am driving, the cause is a female driver. Either driving too slow, not positioning the car correctly in the lane, not positioning the care correctly when waiting to turn right, not being in the right lane on a roundabout, not indicating and generally oblivious to the cars and other people around them..
17-11-2019, 03:19 PM
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Re: Women are best
That is probably based on the fact that women, as drivers, are less competitive than men so have less claims, that doesn't necessarily mean that they are better drivers though. That information is obtained from statistics. Nobody is saying there are not good women drivers around, the same as men there are also some very poor women drivers.As an example of statistics, did you know that a divorced person is more of a risk than a married person? I have been single for five times longer than I was married but I declare 'divorced' status on my car insurance. I have 55 years' claim-free (no blame for three accidents when others drove into me) yet I am rated as more of a risk? Not to declare being divorced would maybe jeopardise any claim. Insurance companies are not to be trusted to reject a claim if possible so I always 'cross all the 't's and dot all the 'i's.
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