It is often discussed and ‘guessed’ that whether the mobile phones have any impact on a person’s ability to drive safely. The Government and Road Safety Interest groups strongly support the view while the regular drivers, who are habitual of multi-tasking in this world, say well they dont agree with this.
Inspired by these conflicting opinions, I did a quick correlation test for Mobile Phone sales per country and the number of road fatalities as reported by WHO.
With a magnitude of 98.76%, mobile phone sales have a direct correlation with number of road fatalities. This correlation stands true with data of over 25 countries with China and India topping the list of mobile buyers and fatalities both.
Check it out –
Sources of Data :
Road Fatalities – Wikipedia
Number of Mobile Phones Sold per country – Wikipedia
Clearly a candidate for Causation study.
Drive safely!
Grow Daily 
[…] A rather serious study that I conducted was to see if texting had any correlation with fatalities in road accidents. This was a rather aspirational study to try to see if the common understanding was wrong. Glad that I was wrong in the hypothesis. Indeed there are fatalities that are caused due to texting. […]
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