Percentage of pedestrians killed by motor vehicles that are female.
70
Percentage killed that are male.
Posted by Mikal at November 17, 2003 10:52 PMVERY telling stat eh?
Posted by: Jerry C. at November 30, 2003 11:06 PMWhat does that stat tell us? Women get out of the way more? Men don't see the cars coming? What??? What??? Someone tell me!
Posted by: Lee McDaniel at December 2, 2003 10:55 AMI think it speaks to notion that more males take risks than females when it comes to pedestrian safety.
Posted by: Mikal at December 2, 2003 1:01 PMIt means women have given birth and understand the value of life better than men. Somewhere is a mother who experienced pain to give breath to that pedestrian.
Posted by: Cindra at December 3, 2003 6:49 AMThis stat cracks me up simply because, after pointing out that 30% of pedestrians killed are female, it goes on to explain the exceedingly obvious fact that the remaining 70% must be male. Good work, Sherlockó really appreciate having that puzzler cleared up for me.
I'm imagining the same clarity being brought to the other stats: "50% of Americans live within 50 miles of their birthplace. 50%...don't."
Posted by: D. Lee Grooms at December 5, 2003 11:27 AMOh, I read that completely wrong.. I thought they were talking about the drivers being male or female. They are talking pedestrians. DUH! Guess I am lucky I wasn't walking on a busy street while reading that.
Posted by: Cindra at December 5, 2003 8:01 PMMaybe it means that women are running men down?
Posted by: Doug at January 27, 2004 1:05 PMBut... how does one tell whether a motor vehicle is male or female?
To be fair, I can't think of an unambiguous way to word this, at least not within the confines of this list structure. Anyone?
Posted by: Stan at May 5, 2004 10:46 AMHow about? "Percentage of female pedestrians killed by motor vehicles!"
Posted by: at January 26, 2005 6:48 PMwhat about females are bad drivers? they hit men? :D