Intersting stats

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I know figures can be manipulated, but some interesting ones here - especially those concerning accumulation of points


http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news...

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flemke said:

If men have amassed "a total of 1.51 million penalty points", for an average of 1.1 points per driver, that means that in Birmingham there are 1.37 million male drivers.
Doing a similar calculation, according to the article's numbers Birmingham has 1.13 million female drivers.
Therefore, according to the article's numbers, there are 2.5 million Birmingham drivers.

The entire population of Birmingham, which of course will include children and non-driving adults, is 1.1 million people.

About 55% of UK population hold a driving licence. The % for B'ham is probably lower owing to its demographics but, even assuming the same 55%, that gets us to a total of 600,000 drivers in Birmingham.

If 55% of those are male, that is a total of roughly 330,000 B'ham drivers who have 1.51 million penalty points. The male drivers would on average each have 4.5 points, not "1.1". The number for women would be 4.2 points.

Just a minor point, but the stats provided would probably include everyone within the “B” postcode of the area, which includes a lot of other areas well outside of Birmingham (speaking as one of the statistics who doesn’t live in Birmingham)