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The article has a more nuanced title. "Vehicle choice, crash differences help explain greater injury risks for women" With the title here on HN being "Women mu

The article has a more nuanced title. "Vehicle choice, crash differences help explain greater injury risks for women" With the title here on HN being "Women much more likely than men to be seriously injured or killed in car crashes", I was expecting the crashtest dummies to not take women into account but this is not the case here.

tgv 6y ago
Another nuance that should be added: men are 2.5x more likely to die as a result of a crash (same website: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/gender https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/gende...). For passengers, however, the stats are almost identical.
- cinntaile 6y ago
  The fact that the statistics are almost identical for passengers suggests to me that another factor is likely at play here. It would be interesting to see the gender differences for drivers when there are passengers in the car.
  - tgv 6y ago
    Can also be an age thing: older and younger people are driven around more. Or a combination of factors, most likely. I don't live in the USA, but here the ratio male-female casualties in traffic accidents is also 70%-30%. The age groups 20 to 29 plus 70 and up make up 55% of all casualties.
bookofjoe 6y ago
Beginning of article's first sentence: "Women are much more likely than men to suffer a serious injury when they are involved in a crash..."
- macksd 6y ago
  And you'll notice it's immediately followed by ", but...". I agree this should be changed to the original headline.
- MattGaiser 6y ago
  > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- the_duke 6y ago
  So you used the more more dramatic partial first sentence to ... get more attention? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

tgv 6y ago

Another nuance that should be added: men are 2.5x more likely to die as a result of a crash (same website: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/gender https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/gende...). For passengers, however, the stats are almost identical.

cinntaile 6y ago
The fact that the statistics are almost identical for passengers suggests to me that another factor is likely at play here. It would be interesting to see the gender differences for drivers when there are passengers in the car.
- tgv 6y ago
  Can also be an age thing: older and younger people are driven around more. Or a combination of factors, most likely. I don't live in the USA, but here the ratio male-female casualties in traffic accidents is also 70%-30%. The age groups 20 to 29 plus 70 and up make up 55% of all casualties.

bookofjoe 6y ago

Beginning of article's first sentence: "Women are much more likely than men to suffer a serious injury when they are involved in a crash..."

macksd 6y ago
And you'll notice it's immediately followed by ", but...". I agree this should be changed to the original headline.
MattGaiser 6y ago
> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
the_duke 6y ago
So you used the more more dramatic partial first sentence to ... get more attention? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html