Death rates correlate with education levels, urbanization rate, alcohol consumption, car size, driving laws, speed cameras, and road design.
Death rates correlate with education levels, urbanization rate, alcohol consumption, car size, driving laws, speed cameras, and road design.
Pretty clear pattern with the US states. The lowest death rates are decidedly blue and the highest are decidedly red.
Like Tal said, a confounder for that would be distances driven. There are probably similar ones like rural/uban populations etc. It would be great to see a study allowing for these.
I couldn’t find one but I didnt look very hard.
edit: coundn’t
In that order?
edit: OK, so I actually watched the video: #1 was vehicle miles/kms travelled
I would bet the highest correlation is with drunk driving.
It’s miles driven per person. Wisconsin and Minnesota have ridiculous drunk driving rates, but they are middle of the pack.
Presumably, people drive more frequently and for longer distances in the red states. Everyone I know back in my home red state commutes between 30 minutes to an hour, sometimes more, everyday. They’re not sitting in traffic either.
I don’t know why you think people would spend any less time in traffic in blue states.
The main issue is distance (and speed), not time. Your far less likely to be in a fatal car crash (or crash out any kind) in slow-moving city traffic jams vs driving from your rural house to your job in the next small town doing 85 mph on a 2-lane highway, which is the scenario a lot of folks in rural areas have every day
Correlation is not causation. They never addressed speed or distance, which are clearly the biggest factors in the chances of fatality and the chances of having a wreck at all (respectively)
From the video:
I’m guessing that these are in order of correlation. I didn’t notice a source or follow up further.
From the linked source, #1 is miles driven. You can keep copy/pasting the same thing in response to people hypothesizing miles driven is the biggest cause, but it won’t change the fact that you are wrong.
It’s not time in traffic. It’s time NOT in traffic. Traffic is slow and not often deadly. Driving for an hour at 70mph is much more dangerous than an hour at 25mph.
And blue states often have bigger cities with slower traffic and shorter commute distances.