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Left-handed drivers safer

  • 18-08-2004 10:20pm
    #1
    Esel
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    Not Your Ornery Onager


    From the Irish Independent Monday 16/08/2004:

    "Right-handed drivers under the age of 25 are almost twice as likely to cause an accident than left-handers of the same age group, a motor insurance survey has found".

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #2
    seamus
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    That has to be someone taking the piss. Where would they get those kind of statistics? Insurance companies don't ask about your hand orientation.


  • #3
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,091 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    seamus wrote:
    That has to be someone taking the piss. Where would they get those kind of statistics? Insurance companies don't ask about your hand orientation.

    They don't normally ask, but in a *survey*, they may well have done.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #4
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    im a leftie, i think its true. its something to do with the brain and the way we think different than right handed people.

    lefties maybe good on right habd drive cars, but deffo not good on left hand drive cars...........!


  • #5
    klaus23
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    66% of statistics are made up on the spot


  • #6
    Our man in Havana
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    klaus23 wrote:
    66% of statistics are made up on the spot
    and only 18% of people know that!


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  • #7
    Imposter
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    x in the city wrote:
    lefties maybe good on right habd drive cars, but deffo not good on left hand drive cars...........!
    What are you basing this on (the second half in particular)?


  • #8
    Gmodified
    Closed Accounts Posts: 973 ✭✭✭Gmodified


    statistics sucks big time


  • #9
    unkel
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    Chauffe, Marcel, chauffe!


    Interesting, apart from the fact that this is reported during the "nothing newsworthy to report" holiday season. It is widely accepted that left-handed people are over-represented in the lowest and highest intelligence groups

    Me, I'm right-handed but left carrying ;)

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  • #10
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    "It is widely accepted that left-handed people are over-represented in the lowest and highest intelligence groups".


    lefties are amongst the highest achivers in the world. bill gates, bill clinton, our own bertie bowl and blah .

    how about doing a little survey here into the accident ratio of lefties and right handers?


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