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Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis
Serenissima writes "Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists. People with a particular gene variant performed more than 20 percent worse on a driving test than people without it — and a follow-up test a few days later yielded similar results. About 30 percent of Americans have the variant. 'These people make more errors from the get-go, and they forget more of what they learned after time away,' said Dr. Steven Cramer, neurology associate professor and senior author of the study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex."
Did any one catch the sample size? "The driving test was taken by 29 people - 22 without the gene variant and seven with it." Ummm... Sounds like interesting research, but until your sample size increases a bit, you don't got nothing.
Yeah and the seven were Asian.
Traffic laws are there for a reason: to save lives. Break them regularly and you are a bad driver. Period. Full stop. End of line.
Yes, you may be maintaining control of your vehicle. That would be great if you were the only moving object on the road.
...and my friends, family, and I all agree that Asians (East Asians, SE Asians, S Asians) are all collectively pretty terrible. I've heard Middle Eastern guys are not too much better either.
Whether this is genetic is debatable, however. Many immigrants and their first/second-generation kids typically come from highly urban areas with very cheap and convenient mass transit, which decreases the number of car drivers (and hence, driving experience) in this demographic.
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You could make an argument that all human behavior can be traced to genetics. In fact my father is typing this same reply at another forum over at AARP.COM. He can't spell either.
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