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Old 18th Feb 2014, 07:25
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Looks significant to me.

awblain:
It says 3.8% of Apache-D pilots (is that both crew members counting as "pilots") are female.
I only took a quick look, but with A and D models together we have 85 accidents and 10% of pilots are women, so I am expecting 8.5 accidents with women, the fact that there are none is significant at about 3 sigma, around 1/1000 chance.

I do not know how crew parings are chosen, but if not biased then I might expect 1/10 females suggests, 1/100 all female, 18/100 mixed, 81 all male in which case, there would be 19% of crews that were not exclusively male and so I would expect 19% of 85 , i.e. 16 accidents were we have none out of 85. Even more significant.
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