Comments on: NYRA Releases New Study: Teen Drivers Safer Than Previously Thought http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/04/nyra_releases_n.html Alex's Blog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:32:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on NYRA Releases New Study: Teen Drivers Safer Than Previously Thought by: Gwen http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/04/nyra_releases_n.html#comment-441 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://oneandfour.org/archives/2006/04/nyra_releases_n.html#comment-441 >When someone produces statistics that show black americans have higher crime rates observers immediately say that its nothing to do with their race, its because of their higher poverty rates or other socio-economic factors. And they are right. Why doesn't the public give teens the same benefit of the doubt? Well, when I was one of the unwashed masses (that is, someone who hadn't read any yr literature, including Males), I assumed that teenagers had about the same poverty level as the parent generation...which doesn't make sense, now that I think about it, because it's more expensive to raise a child, and because rich people have less children...but that's what an assumption is, something people don't think about. I assumed that since the parents of teens are adults, the proportion of poor teens was the same as the proportion of poor adults. Now I know better, but it's important to keep in mind--not everyone knows statistics, and common sense is often wrong. Oh yeah, and it's a great study. ;^) -Gwen. >When someone produces statistics that show black americans have higher crime rates observers immediately say that its nothing to do with their race, its because of their higher poverty rates or other socio-economic factors. And they are right. Why doesn’t the public give teens the same benefit of the doubt?

Well, when I was one of the unwashed masses (that is, someone who hadn’t read any yr literature, including Males), I assumed that teenagers had about the same poverty level as the parent generation…which doesn’t make sense, now that I think about it, because it’s more expensive to raise a child, and because rich people have less children…but that’s what an assumption is, something people don’t think about. I assumed that since the parents of teens are adults, the proportion of poor teens was the same as the proportion of poor adults.
Now I know better, but it’s important to keep in mind–not everyone knows statistics, and common sense is often wrong.

Oh yeah, and it’s a great study. ;^)
-Gwen.

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