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Scientific Evidence that Men and Women are Designed Differently

Women drive only 30% of miles driven but are in 37% of the fatal accidents

"It is well established in the literature that a
wide variety of aptitudes, skills and cognitive abilities differ among the
sexes. The largest cognitive gender differences are found in
visual-spatial abilities. Research shows that males have greater
visual-spatial skills than females. Males also tend to be superior in the
quantitative area, while females tend to have better verbal skills.
Cognitive performance and spatial abilities are among the most
important attributes of flying. Verbal skills are also important to
maintain safe air traffic control communication and facilitate crew
coordination", Kathleen L. McFadden, Ph.D

WOMEN PILOTS ARE FOUR TIMES MORE LIKELY THAN MEN PILOTS TO HAVE ACCIDENTS

"Using a chi-squared test of proportions, it was found that about 0.39% of female pilots employed by major airlines had pilot-error accidents during 1986-1992.  Conversely, only about 0.1% of their male counterparts had pilot-error accidents." 

From the observation that women pilots are FOUR TIMES more likely than men pilots to have an accident, Kathleen recommends that the airlines hire even more women pilots!   This is irresponsible.

To her credit, she did note the following:

"... one study analyzed differences in accident rates among male and female private pilots. Private pilots, unlike airline pilots, fly for reasons other than compensation or hire. The study reports that from 1972-1981, females had significantly lower accident rates than males. However, one major criticism of this work is that it employed only rudimentary statistical analysis. Moreover, it did not adjust for recent flying hours, a measure of the level of exposure of pilots to risk. The most commonly used adjustment measure is a pilot's flying hours in the last six months (recent flying hours), although no universally accepted measure of exposure currently exists. The theory behind adjusting for risk exposure is that pilots who fly more frenquently may be exposed to a greater risk of being involved in an aviation accident. Consequently, if males had more current flight time, this may explain the higher accident rate of male versus female private pilots. The present study will explore the need for controlling for risk exposure, employ a more rigorous statistical methodology, and will focus on the pilot-error accident rates of airline pilots rather than private pilots. Consequently this study will fill a research void."

but then she said "AIRLINES SHOULD HIRE MORE WOMEN PILOTS"!

She ignored the simple fact that, if the reason men pilots do have fewer accidents is because they fly more often than women pilots, then this is just one more reason that women should not be airline pilots.   If so many women are getting private pilots licenses, but still don't fly as frequently as men, then why should anyone presume that there is some other magical way to improve their flying skills?  This isn't science--this is feminist advocacy under the cloak of "research".

In the following article is a cryptic reference to PRECISELY why women who are BAD pilots have been forced into, because of political correctness and not public safety, positions of authority and responsibility for whch they are patently UN-qualified:

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20031212-103720-6162r.htm

 A U.S. appeals court yesterday upheld the dismissal of a libel suit brought by a former Navy pilot against Elaine Donnelly and her Center for Military Readiness.
    A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously that District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth correctly threw out the suit brought by Carey Dunai Lohrenz.
    The ruling promises to end a contentious 7-year-old court battle that focused on the standards the Navy applied to women pilots in 1993-94 when it lifted the ban on female combat pilots. Yesterday's decision also is a boost to journalists. It reaffirms that a reporter must not wait for a subject to OK the release of information before writing a story.
    "The thing that's amazing about this ruling is that the judge reaffirms every thing we have been saying all along," said Mrs. Donnelly. "I did have my facts straight. I'm now totally vindicated because the court recognized I had the right to differ from the official statements of the Navy because I had all the facts I needed."
    Mrs. Donnelly, an opponent of women in combat, issued a report in 1995 accusing the Navy of providing extra favors to Mrs. Lohrenz, then a lieutenant, to ensure she qualified as the first woman F-14 fighter pilot. Much of her report was based on Mrs. Lohrenz's training records provided by one of her instructors, now-retired Lt. Patrick J. Burns. The Navy eventually removed Mrs. Lohrenz from the carrier Abraham Lincoln for what it said was unsafe flying. She filed a libel suit against Mrs. Donnelly in 1996, springing the long legal fight.
    "This was abuse of the court system but it was worth it," said Mrs. Donnelly, who estimates she has spent $600,000 in legal fees. "It defends my right to advocate high, uncompromising standards for everyone in naval aviation training. That's what I had to fight for. I hope reporters who do stories like this appreciate this."
    Kent Masterson Brown, Mrs. Donnelly's attorney, said Mrs. Lohrenz's legal team has two avenues left for appeal — none of which, he says, will succeed. One is to ask the full U.S. Court of Appeals to hear the case.
    "That will not succeed," Mr. Brown said. "I can tell you with 100 percent certainty it will not." This is because appeals courts rarely rehear unanimous decisions, he said.
    Mrs. Lohrenz could opt instead to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case. But, since yesterday's ruling relied on a previous appeals ruling the high court has refused to overturn, that prospect too appears doomed.
    Rodney A. Smolla, who argued Mrs. Lohrenz's case before the appeals court in September, said he "very likely" will seek one of those two appeal routes. "Obviously we were disappointed," he said. "We thought Carey Lohrenz didn't deserve to be classified as a public figure."
    Whether Mrs. Lohrenz was a public figure in 1994 is the case's key issue. Judge Lamberth ruled that her volunteering to becoming a pioneering women pilot thrust her into public figure status. As such, she must not only prove that Mrs. Donnelly's report was false, but also that she showed actual malice and a reckless disregard for the truth.
    The appeals court ruled that Mrs. Lohrenz was, in fact, a public figure. The opinion also strongly suggested that what Mrs. Donnelly wrote was true.
    "The information that Donnelly and CMR received reasonably led them not to investigate allegedly contradictory evidence," said Judge Judith W. Rogers, who wrote the unanimous opinion. "By the time Donnelly published The Donnelly Report, she had additional information from the Navy that appeared to confirm much of what Lt. Burns had told her about Lt. Lohrenz."
    Concurring in the opinion were Judges Laurence Silberman and John G. Roberts.
    Judge Rogers wrote, "By the time she published The Donnelly Report, Donnelly also had portions of Lt. Lohrenz's training records that supported Lt. Burns' assertions that the Navy made special accommodations for Lt. Lohrenz."
    On Mrs. Lohrenz's argument that she was no a public figure, the opinion states, "Lohrenz's contention that she was, in effect, an anonymous Navy pilot, rings hallow as there is no evidence to support such a conclusion."

• "Female airline pilots were significantly more likely to have aviation accidents than their male counterparts."

• "Significantly more likely" means the very best women pilots in the country have 4.1 times higher accident rate than men pilots, consistent with the lower math skills and reduced hand/eye coordination of women and the 3 times higher fatal child abuse rate of single mothers.

• Kathleen never even acknowledged that hiring even more female pilots from lower down the female bell curve would increase this "gender gap" to far greater than 4X.

• She makes the totally unsupported assertion that hiring more female pilots who could "mentor ... inexperienced female airline pilots" would "enhance safety within the airline industry", contradicting her own statement that "if males had more current flight time, this may explain the higher accident rate of male versus female private pilots"

• She "adjusts for important variables" [read: eliminates the obvious factors which make males better pilots] in order to be able to make the feminist assertion that "male and female pilots are not significantly different".

• She proposes that, since "aviation accidents are such rare events", comparisons should be made to simulator performance instead [read: since we know that female pilots are killing passengers at a rate 4 times that of male pilots, let's ignore that factor and concentrate on flight simulators where females are less stressed and thus might not perform as poorly].

• After proving that she has seen the data, after subtracting all the suitable outliers and massaging her assumptions, after giving female pilots the benefit of every doubt, and still after proving that females are 4.1 times more likely than males to have an accident, she claims "the non-significant difference ... could be entirely due to chance." 

• Only a true feminist mental midget would dare dismiss such critical, revealing, and important data like this with such aplomb.

WOMEN PILOTS DOWNED MORE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT THAN THE ENEMY

What has been the track record of women pilots?

1. First woman pilot Harriet Quimby killed herself when she crashed at an aviation meet on July 1, 1912.

2. First black woman pilot Bessie Coleman killed herself when she crashed in Florida in 1926.

3. Cornelia Fort was the first woman pilot killed in WWII.

4. First woman pilot in the Navy Barbara Rainey killed herself while training another pilot in an air accident.

5. Amelia Earhart, the most famous woman pilot, disappeared in the Pacific Ocean.

6. First woman Turkish pilot Gok killed when she crashed her F-5A warplane.

7. 1st Lt. Mary Grace Baloyo, one of the first women pilots in the Phillipines, crashed an OV-10 in the Phillipines and killed herself.

8. Maj. Marie Therese Rossi, U.S. Army, one of the first female helicopter pilots killed herself the day after the cease fire which ended Operation Desert Storm (the Persian Gulf War).

9. Lt. Kara Spears Hultgreen, one of the first U.S. Navy combat pilots, killed herself immediately after the Department of Defense Risk rule was rescinded.

10. Mabel Rawlinson killed in plane crash.

11. Amy Mollison killed in plane crash in the Thames River.

12. Captain Amy Lynn Svoboda killed herself when she crashed her A-10 Thunderbolt during a training mission at Barry   Goldwater Air Force Range in Arizona.

13. Lt. Laura Piper killed in Army helicopter in Iraq on 14 April 1994.

14. US Army pilot Captain Jennifer J. Odom killed herself and four other crew members when she crashed her DeHavilland RC7 in southern Colombia [correction: As the widower of Army Captain Jennifer J Odom who was killed in Colombia as a MEMBER of the crew of an Army DeHaviland -7 reconnaissance aircraft I respectfully request that you immediately remove the erroneus entry regarding Jennifer. You mistakenly put her as the pilot of the downed aircraft. The record of investigation shows she was in the rear of the aircraft and not piloting the plane as you indicate in this posting. In fact the pilot was CW2 Moore, a male. My "Jew" attorney will monitor this site and if the correction is not made than you will unfortunately find out what libel and slander costs in todays society. First amendment rights can only be stretched so far my friend. Charles Odom LTC(R) USA]

15. Doris Mullen, Whirly Girl #84, killed in 1966.

16. JANE DOLORES CHAMPLIN entered flight training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on February 21, 1943.On the night of June 7, she and her instructor were killed in a BT-15 while on a training flight near Avenger Field.

17. SUSAN PARKER CLARKE  entered WASP flight training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in September, 1943 and graduated on March 11, 1944. Shewas then stationed with the 33rdFerrying Group at Fairfax Field, Kansas City, Missouri. She lost her life on July 4, 1944 when the BT-13 she was ferrying crashed near Columbia, South Carolina.

18. MARJORIE LAVERNE DAVIS learned to fly in Sparks, Nevada, and entered training to become a WASP at Avenger field, Sweetwater, Texas in June, 1944. She was killed on the night of October 16, 1944 while on a cross country training flight in an AT-6 near Walnut, Mississippi.

19. KATHERINE ‘KAY’ APPLEGATE DUSSAQ entered flight training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on August 9, 1943, and graduated on February 11, 1944. Her first duty station was Sioux Falls Army Air Base, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.She was then transferred to Randolph Army Air Base, San Antonio, Texas (HQ/CFTC)), then to Fort Worth, Texas (FTC, Hq.) She was killed when the AT-6 she was flying on an administrative cross-country flight crashed on the night of November 26, 1944 near New Carlisle, Ohio.

20. JAYNE ELIZABETH ERICKSON  reported for WASP flight training to Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in January, 1944. While flying an AT-6, she was killed in a mid-air collision in the traffic pattern at Avenger on April 16, 1944.

21. MARJORIE DORIS EDWARDS entered WASP flight training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on December 7, 1943. She died in the crash of an AT-6 near Childress, Texas, while on a cross-country training flight.

22. CORNELIA FORT reported for duty as a WAFS in October, 1942. She lost her life on March 21, 1943 in a mid-air collision near Abilene, Texas, while on a ferrying mission in a BT-13. Cornelia was the first casualty of an American woman pilot on active duty.

23. FRANCES FORTUNE GRIMES entered WASP flighttraining atHouston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas on January 15, 1943 and graduated at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, July 3, 1943. Her active duty assignment was to the 5th FG/ATC at Love Field, Dallas, Texas. She was killed shortly after take-off from Otis Field, Massachusetts in an A-24 attack bomber on March 27, 1944.

24. MARY E. HARTSON  entered flight training to become a WASP on April 6, 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas and was graduated on September 11, 1943. She was progressively stationed at four different bases: Dodge City Army Air Base, Kansas; Coffeyville ArmyAir Base, Kansas; Independence Army Air Field, Kansas and Perrin Army Air Base, Sherman, Texas. She was killed on August 14, 1944, while flight testing a BT-13 at Perrin.

25. MARY HOLMES HOWSON began herflight training to become a WASP on November 1, 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. While returning from a cross-country flight in a PT-19, Mary was killed in a mid-air collision in the traffic pattern at Avenger Field, on April 16, 1944-- just three weeks before her scheduled graduation.

26. EDITH ‘EDY’ CLAYTON KEENE arrived at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas to begin training to become a WASP, and graduated on February 11, 1944. She was assigned to Hondo Army Air Field, Hondo, Texas and later transferred to Moore Army Air Base, Mission, Texas. She was killed on April 25, 1944 while on a routine flight in an AT-6 that crashed near Mission.

27. KATHRYN BARBARA LAWRENCE entered training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on July 10. 1943. She was killed on August 4, 1943, while flying a PT-19 on a routine training flight at Avenger Field.

28. HAZEL YING LEE entered WASP flight training on February 21, 1943 and graduated from Avenger Field,Sweetwater, Texas on August 7, 1943. She was assigned to the 3rdFerrying Group, Romulus, Michigan. While flying a P-63, she was killed in a mid-air collision on the final approach at Great Falls, Montana, November 23, 1944.

29. PAULA RUTH LOOP began her training to become a WASP on December 19, 1942 at Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas and graduated at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on May 28, 1943. She was then stationed at Romulus Army Air Base, Michigan, with the 3rd FG/ATC, as a ferry pilot. She was killed in the crash of a BT-13 near Medford, Oregon on July 7, 1944, while on a ferrying mission.

30. ALICE E. LOVEJOY entered WASP flight training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. She graduated on September 11, 1943. Her first assignment was to the 3rdFerrying Group,Romulus, Michigan, later being transferred for pursuit training to Brownsville, Texas. During a training mission near Brownsville on September 13, 1944, she was killed in a mid-air collision in an AT-6.

31. LEA OLA McDONALD entered WASP flight training at Houston Municipal Airport, Houston,Texas on January 15, 1943. She graduated at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on April 5, 1944. After graduation, she was stationed at Biggs Army Air Field, El Paso, Texas, and was killed while flying an A-24 attack bomber on a practice flight on June 21, 1944.

32. PEGGY WILSON MARTIN entered flight training to become a WASP on November 1, 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, and graduated on May 23, 1944. She was stationed at Marianna Army Air Base, Marianna, Florida. She was killed while engineering test flying a BT-13 on October 3, 1944.

33. VIRGINIA C. MOFFATT reported to the Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas on December 19, 1942 to begin her flight training to become a WASP, and was in the first class of womento graduate at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, May 28, 1943. She was then assigned to the 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach Army Air Base, California. She was killed while flying a BT-15 on a routine flight, 5 October 1943.

34. BEVERLY JEAN MOSES entered training to become a WASP on December 7, 1943 and graduated on June 27, 1944 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. She was stationed at Las Vegas Army Air Field, Nevada. While flying as the co-pilot inan AT-11, she was killed in a crash in the mountains near Las Vegas on July 18, 1944.

35. DOROTHY MAE ‘DOTTIE’ NICHOLS  reported to the Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas on December 19, 1942 to train to become a WASP. She was a member of the first class to graduate at AvengerField, Sweetwater, Texas on May 28, 1943. She was assigned to the 6thFerrying Group at Long Beach Army Air Field, California. While ferrying a P-39 from Buffalo, New York, she was killed just aftertake-off outside Bismarck, North Dakota on June 11, 1944.

36. JEANNE LEWELLEN NORBECK entered WASP flight training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in October, 1943 and graduated on April 15, 1944. She was assigned to Shaw Army Air Base, Sumpter, South Carolina (BT-13 Modification Center), and was killed there on October 16, 1944, while flight testing a BT-13.

37. MARGARET SANFORD OLDENBURG was the first trainee fatality in the WASP program. She began her flight training to become a WASP at Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas on February 21, 1943. She was killed on a routine training flight in a PT-19 on March 7, 1943 at the training base at Houston.

38. MABEL VIRGINIA RAWLINSON reported to Houston Municipal Airport, Houston, Texas on January 15, 1943 to begin her flight training to become a WASP. She graduated from Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on July 3, 1943. She was thenassigned to a tow-target squadron at Camp Davis Army Air Field, North Carolina. She was killed in the crash of an A-24 attack bomber on August 23, 1943.

39. GLEANNA ROBERTS entered training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in June, 1944 to become a WASP. On June 20, 1944, she was killed while on a routine training flight in a PT-17 near Lorraine, Texas.

40. MARIE MICHELL ROBINSON began her flight training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in September, 1943 and graduated on March 11, 1944. She was stationed with the 5thFerrying Group at Love Field, Dallas, Texas, and later transferred to the Bombardier Training School, Victorville, California. On October 2, 1944, Marie was killed when the B-25 she was co-piloting crashed in the mountains near Victorville, California. [Correction April 10, 2005--the military accident report states that this accident was in flat terrain and was 100% pilot error, with the pilot having 1,500 hours of flying time]

41. BETTIE MAE SCOTT entered flight training to become a WASP in October, 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas and graduated on April 15, 1944. She was stationed at Waco Army Air Field, Waco, Texas, a Basic Flying Training School. She was killed while flight testing aBT-13 on July 8, 1944.

42. DOROTHY E. SCOTT entered the WAFS in October, 1942. She wasfirst assigned to the 5thFerrying Division, Love Field, Dallas, Texas and later transferred for pursuit training to Palm Springs Army Air Base, California. While flying with her instructor in an AT-6, she was killed in a mid-air collision on December 3, 1943

43. MARGARET JUNE ‘PEGGY’ SEIP entered flight training atAvenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on April 6, 1943 to become a WASP. She, together with her instructor and a fellow class-mate, was killed in the crash of a UC-78 near Big Springs, Texas, August 30, 1943, on a routine training flight.

44. HELEN JO ANDERSON SEVERSON reported to Avenger Field,Sweetwater, Texas on April 6, 1943 to begin her training to become aWASP. She, together with her instructor and a fellow class-mate, was killed on a routine training flight in a UC-78 near Big Springs, Texas, August 30, 1943.

45. MARIE ETHEL SHARON began her training to become a WASP on February 14, 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. She graduated from Avenger Field on August 7, 1943. She was then stationed at Long Beach Army Air Base, California and assigned to the 6thFerrying Group. She and her instructor were killed on April 10, 1944 near Tecumseh, Nebraska, whileflying a B-25 on a night flying instrument training mission.

46. EVELYN SHARP entered the WAFS inOctober, 1942. She was assigned to the 2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Army Air Base, Wilmington, Delaware. She was killed on April 3, 1944 when an engine on the P-38 she wasferrying failed on take-off at New Cumberland, Pennsylvania (Evelyn was one of the most experienced women pilots in America, with 2,968 hours of flying time when she entered the WAFS.)

47. BETTY PAULINE STINE entered training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in September, 1943. On February 25, 1944,during her last cross-country flight before graduation, she was killed when she was forced to bail out of her AT-6 over the mountains near Tucson, Arizona.

48. MARIAN TOEVS began her training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on July 10, 1943 and graduated December 17, 1943. She was stationed at a Basic Flying Training School at Lemoore Army Air Base, Lemoore,California. She was killed near San Jose, California, while flying a BT-13 from Lemoore to Fresno, California on February 18, 1944.

49. GERTRUDE TOMPKINS-SILVER reported to Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in June, 1943 tobegin her training to become a WASP. She graduated on November 13, 1943. She was stationed at Love Field,Dallas, Texas, with the 5th Ferrying Group. After departing on a ferrying mission from Los Angeles, California in a P-51 for the East Coast, she never arrived, and no traces of her were ever found. (She is the only WASP not accounted for.)

50. MARY ELIZABETH TREBING reported for WASP training at AvengerField, Sweetwater, Texas on February 21, 1943, and graduated on August 7, 1943. She was stationed at Love Field, Dallas Texas, with the 5thFerrying Group. She was killed on November 7, 1943, when the PT-19 she was ferrying crashed southeast of Blanchard, Oklahoma.

51. MARY LOUISE WEBSTER went into training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas in March, 1944 and graduated on October 16, 1944. She was stationed with the 33rdTraining Wing of the AFTS SE at Frederick Army Air Field, Frederick, Oklahoma. She was killed on December 9, 1944, while flying as co-pilot in a UC-78.

52. BONNIE JEAN ALLOWAY WELZ reported for training to become a WASP on Easter Sunday, April 25, 1943 at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas. She graduated and became a WASP on October 9, 1943. Bonnie was sent to Dodge City, Kansas for B-26 training, and was then stationed at Harlingen Army Air Field, Harlingen, Texas, (a B-26 Flexible Gunnery School ) She was killed in the crash of a BT-13 near Randado, Texas,while on an administrative flight.

53. BETTY TAYLOR WOOD began her training to become a WASP at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas on February 14, 1943, and graduated at Avenger on August 7, 1943. She was assigned to Camp Davis Army Air Field, Camp Davis, North Carolina, an Anti-Aircraft Artillery School. She was killed in the crash landing of an A-24 attack bomber on September 23, 1943.

WOMEN PILOTS ARE 120 TIMES MORE DANGEROUS TO THE FLYING PUBLIC THAN TERRORISTS

What was the return on the huge investment the nation made in women pilots?  How many of the enemy did they shoot down?  What was the kill ratio of dead women pilots to dead enemy pilots?   Women pilots shot down zero enemy pilots, which makes the kill ratio Infinite.   So Kathleen giving such "sage advice" to hire women pilots who killed an infinitely larger number of themselves than they did the enemy, to an industry and federal agency which are obsessed with safety, is the equivalent of more than 1,000 bomb threats.  If some blind dumb feminist politico took her advice and implemented some form of affirmative action for female pilots which resulted in 10% of the nation's pilots being women, the damages documented by Kathleen herself would exceed that of every terrorist act against airlines in US history, combined.

This $40 billion industry is so obsessed with safety that, just to reduce the risk of terrorism and sabotage, it now treats each American citizen as a potential terrorist.  It requires picture ID's just to pay for the privilege of travelling with them, and puts each piece of luggage and each body which passes through a "security point" in every airport in the country through metal detectors and embarrassing body searches.  The travelers themselves paid for this, of course, through a $1.2 billion per year tab added to their ticket prices. 

What was gained by this heightened security and loss of privacy between 1997 and 1998?  You can't claim that there were fewer aviation accidents because there was a 2% increase in spite of it.  You can claim ONLY that the number of fatal accidents decreased by ONE, from 380 to 379, a 0.26% decrease.  Not counting FAA costs, the industry spent $1.2 billion to achieve a 0.26% decrease in fatal accidents--a $4.6 billion per one percent decrease--and now Kathleen proposes to add enough female pilots with proven higher accident rates to INCREASE that accident rate by 31%!

If female pilots' flying skills did NOT improve because the airlines hired more of them, female pilots would be 120 times more dangerous to the flying public than all acts of sabotage combined.

What could possibly be more irresponsible than for a "researcher" to propose to increase airline fatalities by a third and to ratioinalize it by calling them "rare events"?

CURRENT LEVEL OF WOMEN PILOTS KILLS 55 AMERICANS PER YEAR

The following table is based on Kathleen's assertion that female pilots are 4.1 times more likely to have an accident than male pilots, published on page 443 of Omega "The International Journal of Management Science", Volume 24, Number 4, August 1996.  It's a very good explanation for why only 2.4% of the nation's airline pilots are women.  In fact, it's an even better reason for reducing that percent to zero, because hiring this many pilots with a four fold higher propensity for accidents increased the overall accident rate by 7.3%.  The higher accident rate of female pilots causes, each year, an additional 149 incidents, 28 fatal accidents, and 55 fatalities. If the percent of pilots who are females were to be increased to 10% (reducing the percent of males pilots to 90%), and if that additional 7.6% of female pilots didn't have an even higher accident rate (a very unlikely probability, since they would come from a group of pilots which are even more unqualified than the current group), then the overall accident rate would increase 31% and there would be an extra 633 incidents, 118 fatal accidents, and 233 fatalities. 

INCREASED HIRING OF WOMEN PILOTS WOULD COST $12 BILLION PER YEAR

The added cost to taxpayers for the $35 billion/year FAA expenditure is $2.6 billion at 7.6%  and $10.9 billion at 31%, and the increased costs to the $40 billion airline industry is $3 billion at 7.6% and $12.4 billion at 31%.

Only 2.4% of the nation's 70,164 airline pilots being females is proof enough that the upper edge of the female bell curve is 4.1 times more dangerous than the entire group of good and bad male pilots put together.  Kathleen never mentions that a comparison of the top 0.0014% of American females' flying skills to the top 0.055% of American males' flying skills was an extremely biased sample in the first place, and that comparing apples to apples would have produced evidence that women pilots are much more than 4 times more likely to have accidents than men pilots. 

KATHLEEN'S BIASED STATISTICAL SAMPLE

This is very bad statistical practice.  She should have at least acknowledged that comparing the top 0.055% of females to the top 0.055% of males would have produced significantly different results, but she was mute on this point.  We can only speculate that, including enough less qualified female pilots to achieve a sample size equivalent to the male pilot sample size would have increased the overall higher accident rate of the female pilots to 6 or 10 or even 30 times that of the male pilots.  The following chart is thus not merely extremely conservative, its intentionally misleading:

FIRING ALL FEMALE PILOTS WOULD SAVE LIVES AND $35 BILLION ANNUALLY

Kathleen's data shows that one hundred male pilots over their 30 year careers have an average of 2.9 accidents, 0.6 of which are fatal, whereas 100 female pilots have 11.7 accidents, 2.3 of which are fatal.  The airline industry seems content to increase its costs by $1.2 billion just to reduce its number of fatal accidents by a mere 0.26%.  Using that criteria, eliminating female pilots and reducing annual fatalities by 7.6% has an economic benefit of $35.1 billion to the industry, a greater expenditure than the FAA itself.  Doing this would enable the industry to restore constitutional rights to privacy to its passengers while at the same time reducing costs and fatalities by 7.3%.

WOMEN PILOTS CRASH MORE OFTEN THAN DRINKING PILOTS

To add insult to injury, Kathleen also published a paper which recommended that pilots be subjected to DWI background checks EVEN THOUGH HER OWN DATA SHOWED THAT AIRLINE PILOTS WITH TWO OR MORE DWIs HAD FEWER ACCIDENTS PER CAPITA THAN PILOTS WITH NO DWIs.  Her faulty conclusion was based entirely on TWO pilots who had airline accidents, which was ONE pilot more than predicted, which is a completely unacceptable sample size. 

It also demonstrated something else that she failed to note: women airline pilots have far, far more accidents than pilots who drink.

Using even her most remote assumptions, accepting her flawed logic and unacceptably small sample size, ignoring that some of these pilots whose accidents were attributed to drinking alcohol may have actually had the accident because they were women, pilots with 2 or more DWIs had ZERO accidents where it was expected they should have had more than zero. 

The ONLY way she can interpret her own data to report that there is an association between prior DWIs and airline accidents is to note that only .73 accidents were expected whereas 2 accidents were observed.  But this ONE extra pilot with one DWI who had an accident just cannot make the case for DWI checks of pilots.

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