Looking for some un-PC statistics

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I may be doing a research paper for my b.s. gen-ed womens studies class and I'm looking for a survey or statistic about accident rates for male vs female pilots. Theres information out there, but I cannot find any thats free. Just curious if anybody had a link to such info.
 
I'm gonna have to say that you're going to have to dig through the NTSB reports. They usually identify in the summary "he" or "she" as the accident pilot.

Take the first 50 and trudge on through them.

Then as a comparison, take the number of pilots (in statistics) and find the number of women pilots to have a % of men to women pilots.

You'll be able to interpolate the number of accidents against those %ages to find a rough statistical analysis of the number of accidents per gender per the pilot population.

It looks like a lot of research, and it's probably going to be way off, but it gives you some raw data to work with.

you might also check out the 99's website to see if you can scrounge some statistics or even call the FSDO to see if they have any leads for you
 
While it doesn't directly answer your question, the research report I read once mentioned that male pilots tend to be in accidents because they push the limits (trying to beat wx for example) where as female pilots tend to get into accidents due to lack of ability (bad cross wind technique).

*NOTE* This is not saying females lack ability
 
I came across a summary of the report, but didn't feel like paying for the full version.

Maybe I'll just write about how the media is making little girls anorexic.:eek:
 
You'll probably have some sample size issues given how predominately male the pilot population is. Unless you're doing some pretty fancy ANOVA-style statistics, you're going to have a hard time whittling down to a gender difference in accidents with all the other variables floating around (type, experience, time in type, conditions of flight, maintenance, airspace, IFR/VFR, etc., etc.) Still, the NTSB is the place to go for the raw data, after which you may want to interview a male and female CFI for some anecdotal and qualitative analysis to flesh things out.

What might be easier to research and still of relevance for a women's studies class would be a survey of the perceptions of male and female pilots by the pilot/aviation community at-large (heck, you could do it right here at jetcareers!), especially if you had survey takers identify their own gender when filling out their responses. Might produce some interesting data.
 
ILS37R said:
What might be easier to research and still of relevance for a women's studies class would be a survey of the perceptions of male and female pilots by the pilot/aviation community at-large (heck, you could do it right here at jetcareers!), especially if you had survey takers identify their own gender when filling out their responses. Might produce some interesting data.
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It would, but I'm supposed to be writing a paper about surveys and statistics, not doing them.
 
wheelsup said:
While it doesn't directly answer your question, the research report I read once mentioned that male pilots tend to be in accidents because they push the limits (trying to beat wx for example) where as female pilots tend to get into accidents due to lack of ability (bad cross wind technique).

*NOTE* This is not saying females lack ability
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Or that males lack good judgment. ;)
 
You would definately have to make sure that it is noted in the paper the % of pilots that are actually women and how far they've gotten in training to determine everything. Tehre are a lot of factors going into this paper you're going to write, just make sure you look at all of them and not just guys vs girls.
 
eh, I'm not going to do that anymore I think. All the above will require too much work for a 1000 level gen-ed.

I think I'll pick a topic from Freamonomics instead :)
 
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