We had a discussion about the presence or absence of any superiority of one gender over the other in different tasks. I believe genders are extremely different, and while one is better at something, the other is better at another thing. They are not by any means equal or similar, IMO.
This particular post deals with my idea about driving. Lazar brought about the notion of insurance, as an evidence for women being better at driving (or at least women not worse than men). I forgot to first define my meaning of better. What is better driving?
A better driving means to me to operate the vehicle more efficiently, with less effort. The number of accidents and the insurance rates do not reflect driving skills. People do not need to be better in order to have fewer accidents. They just need to be over cautious, scared, and always driving at a straight line, in order to have zero accidents. Also another way to have fewer accidents is "not to drive"... So a statistics that this or that gender has fewer accidents is not relevant to a better driving skills.
Another point that should be noted is different countries we reside in. I don't know, maybe in Australia, women are different. But in my country, women always drive much slower than men and are always road hogs. They almost never look at the side or rear mirrors, never look at their mirror's blind spot, never bother to turn they head when merging into a new traffic... I see this for numerous times, every time I drive for at least 1 hour. On the other hand, almost no men drive without looking at their mirrors etc... But since they always drive very slow, they always are safe and their car accidents are always minor. (but they make men crazy by being road hogs, which this causes other accidents!)... This very today, I was being killed in the highway by a young lady who suddenly turned the wheel on me, to pass a stopped car; she did not bother to first look at the side mirror and brake a little... In my whole life, I have had a couple of such experiences where men were behind the wheel. About 99% of cases, it was a lady who wanted to kill me!
So if someone defines a good driving as driving very slowly and very very cautiously, then I agree that women are better drivers. I also agree that 3-year-old children driving plastic cars (no-battery), are even better drivers! Studies like this one seem to define a good driver as a robot that does all the rules one by one, slowly, and in a memorized sequence! In this case, I totally agree women are at best such robots which slowly and cautiously move after a long delay of thinking. This driving style only and only belongs to three groups: women, elderly, and people making phone calls (or do other stuff with their partners). But usually, they are my road nightmares who never bother to even look at their mirrors before changing lanes. The one thing they have learned pretty well is the place of the horn!
But if you define driving as a smooth art of operating a delicate 3D object in a dangerous, dynamic, and rapidly ever changing 3D maze, as fast as possible (eg, Formula 1), and without getting killed or killing others, well then there remains nothing to argue about.
This particular post deals with my idea about driving. Lazar brought about the notion of insurance, as an evidence for women being better at driving (or at least women not worse than men). I forgot to first define my meaning of better. What is better driving?
A better driving means to me to operate the vehicle more efficiently, with less effort. The number of accidents and the insurance rates do not reflect driving skills. People do not need to be better in order to have fewer accidents. They just need to be over cautious, scared, and always driving at a straight line, in order to have zero accidents. Also another way to have fewer accidents is "not to drive"... So a statistics that this or that gender has fewer accidents is not relevant to a better driving skills.
Another point that should be noted is different countries we reside in. I don't know, maybe in Australia, women are different. But in my country, women always drive much slower than men and are always road hogs. They almost never look at the side or rear mirrors, never look at their mirror's blind spot, never bother to turn they head when merging into a new traffic... I see this for numerous times, every time I drive for at least 1 hour. On the other hand, almost no men drive without looking at their mirrors etc... But since they always drive very slow, they always are safe and their car accidents are always minor. (but they make men crazy by being road hogs, which this causes other accidents!)... This very today, I was being killed in the highway by a young lady who suddenly turned the wheel on me, to pass a stopped car; she did not bother to first look at the side mirror and brake a little... In my whole life, I have had a couple of such experiences where men were behind the wheel. About 99% of cases, it was a lady who wanted to kill me!
So if someone defines a good driving as driving very slowly and very very cautiously, then I agree that women are better drivers. I also agree that 3-year-old children driving plastic cars (no-battery), are even better drivers! Studies like this one seem to define a good driver as a robot that does all the rules one by one, slowly, and in a memorized sequence! In this case, I totally agree women are at best such robots which slowly and cautiously move after a long delay of thinking. This driving style only and only belongs to three groups: women, elderly, and people making phone calls (or do other stuff with their partners). But usually, they are my road nightmares who never bother to even look at their mirrors before changing lanes. The one thing they have learned pretty well is the place of the horn!
But if you define driving as a smooth art of operating a delicate 3D object in a dangerous, dynamic, and rapidly ever changing 3D maze, as fast as possible (eg, Formula 1), and without getting killed or killing others, well then there remains nothing to argue about.
