Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived
by Sharlin on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:45PM
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Conditional on being in a crash, men are more likely to die due to being involved in more severe crashes. But ceteris paribus, women tend to be more easily injured.
Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived
by pwinnski on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:55PM
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Literally the first sentence in the article says, "Compared to men, women are 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash and 73 percent more likely to sustain serious injuries in a front-end collision."
Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived
by jefftk on Monday November 07, 2022 @03:02PM
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The article does say that, but the article is simplifying. If you click through they're citing https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/... which says 17% "given similar physical insults". But conditional on being in a crash is not the same thing as conditional on being in a crash of a given severity.
Men are involved in many, many more crashes overall, but in a car crash, cars are currently designed to protect men better than women.
The indefinite article is doing a lot of work there.