Concession: id be damned if I told you that we didn’t goose the new guy bending over the explosives from time to time.
Are you implying that being male means that they must be reckless? Or that if they were female they would automatically be careful and gentle? Careful throwing around those negative stereotypes.
EDIT: The driver is likely to be getting shot at. This is going to be an order of magnitude more important than slight gender differences.
Being young and male correlates strongly with high testosterone, the effects of which you can Google for. Being young and male also correlates with higher incidences of road traffic accidents than most other demographics.
The effects of testosterone are far from as simple as you suggest. It tends to lead to higher competitiveness. This is not quite the same as recklessness.
Meanwhile during normal usage the driver (of whatever gender) is likely to be getting shot at. This will tend to have a larger affect than their gender.
Yes, and millions of young men in the US who are shorter than millions of young women. What’s your point? Young men are still disproportionately more likely to be in road traffic accidents.
Re testosterone, the keywords you should be searching for are “risk taking behaviour”.
I’m curious also what percentage of time you think the average military driver is being shot at is.
And in the military, given how e.g. the draft has never applied to women. Times are changing, but very, very slowly, and there will always be a gender disparity due to physical differences (e.g. strength, see also: almost every sport)
Or to make a summery of the summery of the study: there is an association of risk aversion when going from low levels of testosterone to very low levels, but "male with high testosterone" is not supported in that study as increased risk taking behavior vs males with normal levels of testosterone.
No -- being shot at is 0-2% of your time deployed. The rest is waiting around.
"Motor vehicle crash fatalities were higher for males than females in all age groups, while the male population is equal to or less than the female population in all age groups."
Particularly in the 21-30 age group, males had 3x the fatalities of females.
In my experience men and women tend to be about equally hard on things. The male outliers tend to create more maintenance work by being hard on chassis/suspension ("hold my beer and watch this"). The female outliers tend to create more maintenance work by keeping quiet about problems (usually having to do with fluids not in their proper places) for far too long.
The most expensive driver is the kind that blindly follows directions/orders into a dumb situation.
Source: Did fleet maintenance in high-school.
edit: The words "in my experience" and "outliers" were used for a reason. I'm not claiming that all men will get a mini-bus airborne if given the opportunity or that all women will ignore an obvious puddle in a parking spot. I am stating what patterns I observed in the noteworthy cases of neglect. There's a million uncontrolled variables, maybe we were just a really scary maintenance department and none of the women wanted to talk to us or something. I'm not claiming that a bunch high school teachers a decade ago is a sample that accurately represents the rest of the population. Maybe the way buses were assigned to teams (pseudorandom) resulted in the observed failure pattern.
Attention to detail
“I’ve always been impressed by how women take care of
their machines” Smith says. “They keep them clean and
don’t leave trash in the cabs. If there was a drop of
oil coming out of a wheel or something small like that
they let you know about it.”
Ok, well my undocumented assertion is roughly the opposite. Where does that leave us?
>I'd be happy to look at any statistics you can provide that show "equally hard on things".
Post on /r/mechanicadvice, dump out the 80% that were written by someone who's never actually turned a wrench and sift through what's left?
Regarding trash specifically I think the difference between a company vehicle and a personal vehicle is going to make a bigger difference than gender.
I guess it leaves us at, "Statistically, three times as many young adult male drivers have fatal accidents than equivalent young female drivers, despite having a smaller population."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb
and upon further searching, this → https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_generator
I need to ask if thermoelectric generator was a part of the B61 nuclear bomb? Please explain.
According to the author, most warheads in the US arsenal are (or were) equipped with single-use thermal batteries that are activated during the firing sequence.
Thermal batteries were originally developed by German scientists, but the concept was taken further in the 1950s when the US armed forces were looking for a more reliable and less maintenance intensive power source for their nuclear weapons once fired.
[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=H0-CJckES44C&lpg=PT133&ots...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
The closest thing to what you're looking for appears to be Americium-241, discussed in the above link, which apparently can be extracted from nuclear waste, but it's not a very good choice.
I was confused as to how many PnC of search strings I had to create. Thanks for that :)
Hey, those are from Amarillo!
When I was about 20, I was out driving around and decided to see how fast my Oldsmobile could go, on a long, straight county road. Got up to about 110 and decided to slow down when I popped over a low hill and saw the road making a 90° right turn in front of a tall chain link fence with razor-wire on the top. I made the turn, but I assume emergency medical assistance would have arrived quickly---the fence was Pantex.