Librarians = Better Drivers?

Take a gander at these charts from an MSN Money article.

Occupations that get the speeding tickets -- and those that don’t

Top 5 occupations Ticket rate* Bottom 5 occupations Ticket rate 1. Student 88 36. Teacher/professor 30 2. Enlisted military 78 37. Secretary/clerical 27 3. Manual laborer 78 38. Law enforcement 39 4. Politician 76 39. Librarian 24 5. Architect 72 40. Homemaker 21

*Average for all occupations was 45.
Note: Speeding tickets is a subset of moving violations.
Source: Quality Planning Corp.

And politicians, who ranked near the bottom for accidents, moved up to the top for citations:

Occupations that get the most moving-violation citations

Top 5 occupations Citation rate* Bottom 5 occupations Citation rate 1. Student 121 36. Firefighter 39 2. Manual laborer 112 37. Secretary/clerical 38 3. Architect 106 38. Librarian 33 4. Enlisted military 99 39. Law enforcement 32 5. Politician 97 40. Homemaker 31

*Average for all occupations was 63.
Source: Quality Planning Corp.

"Homemakers, teachers, librarians and secretaries ranked near the bottom of all three lists. So, too, did law enforcement personnel. Cynics may argue that cops are giving each other “professional courtesies" -- not writing up violations, for example. But it just might be, given their training and the number of humans they see made into road pizza, that cops are more careful than the rest of us."

So there you have it. Next time someone asks you why you chose the field of librarianship as opposed to, say, engineering, you have a new reason: tell them you had a vested interest in the greater odds of keeping your number of speeding tickets and moving violations low.

--Oyarsa