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| Women are 73 percent more likely to suffer fatal injuries in car crashes because test dummies mirror the male body type, finds study |
| 2019-10-25 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #10 Announce that half the dummies are in fact men... and the other half are trans-women. Problem solved. |
| Posted by: Sheba Pholurong8248 2019-10-25 19:59 |
| #9 There were similar problems with medical research in the 1980s, including drug testing which was almost exclusively done with undergrad male subjects. When a researcher at Duke identified key issues with drug effectiveness in the presence of estrogen, massive redo's were required and uncovered some serious problems. |
| Posted by: Chinemp Shiper1154 2019-10-25 19:29 |
| #8 Didn't see in the text if the study took into account vehicle type, such as F-150 vs. Jetta. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-10-25 15:51 |
| #7 But what if she identifies as a man? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-10-25 10:09 |
| #6 Don't women have built-in airbags (if ya know what I mean)? |
| Posted by: Raj 2019-10-25 10:04 |
| #5 Ah, poor babies. Did you know that the greatest fatalities in auto accidents occur in the front passenger seat? Maybe all you have to do is move to another location in the car, preferably before impact. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-10-25 08:44 |
| #4 Women are generally lighter and less robust than men. Maybe they just break easier. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2019-10-25 02:58 |
| #3 And here I thought it was female driving. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-10-25 02:43 |
| #2 Use dummies with endomorphic, 'large' women as standard, keeping the mass and joint strength the same as the earlier dummies, and this problem goes away forever. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-10-25 02:37 |
| #1 And the climate is warm in the summer. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-10-25 02:13 |