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Ok, I know the Telegraph is practically a tabloid, but this is sloppy reporting even for them.
Women and gay men are 'worst drivers'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/03/ngay103.xml
(Check the caption: "Be afraid: Women or gay men could be behind the wheel of any car")
Now, here is an aritcle that actually discusses the study in question in an intelligent way:
http://gay_blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/gay-men-navigate-in-similar-way-to.html
All it discusses is NAVIGATING. At most, you could say that gay men and women are more likely to get lost while driving in unfamiliar areas (even that would be a stretch to try and draw that conclusion from this study). It in no way looks at actual driving ability (even the tests they ran didn't use cars of any sort in the VR sim).
As any insurance adjuster can tell you, women are far BETTER drivers than men. There are no studies I know of that compare actual driving ability that differentiates between gay and straight men. But any link between ability and brain structure would seem to indicate they'd be better drivers than straight men based on data regarding women (if you wanted to spin crappy conjecture out of thin air by distorting the study).
Ugh. I live in the US. I should be completely desensitizied to sensationalistic, biased, inaccurate news by now. But grrr.
Women and gay men are 'worst drivers'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/03/ngay103.xml
(Check the caption: "Be afraid: Women or gay men could be behind the wheel of any car")
Now, here is an aritcle that actually discusses the study in question in an intelligent way:
http://gay_blog.blogspot.com/2008/01/gay-men-navigate-in-similar-way-to.html
All it discusses is NAVIGATING. At most, you could say that gay men and women are more likely to get lost while driving in unfamiliar areas (even that would be a stretch to try and draw that conclusion from this study). It in no way looks at actual driving ability (even the tests they ran didn't use cars of any sort in the VR sim).
As any insurance adjuster can tell you, women are far BETTER drivers than men. There are no studies I know of that compare actual driving ability that differentiates between gay and straight men. But any link between ability and brain structure would seem to indicate they'd be better drivers than straight men based on data regarding women (if you wanted to spin crappy conjecture out of thin air by distorting the study).
Ugh. I live in the US. I should be completely desensitizied to sensationalistic, biased, inaccurate news by now. But grrr.