Talk:Accident-proneness

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Note: this article is partly based on public domain text from the U.S. government public domain document "Accident Proneness: A Research Review": Rodgers, Mark D. and Blanchard, Robert E. Accident Proneness: A Research Review. Federal Civil Aeromedical Institute Report DOT/FAA/AM-93-9, March 2003.

Topics for expanding article

I have done a little informal work involving the psychology of being "accident-prone" and have some thoughts for topics to expand the article. From my own observations, the ability of PROPRIOCEPTION varies greatly from one individual to the next, and defective proprioception is probably one of the greatest causes of "accident-proneness" that involves handling things, manipulating objects, and fine motor skill in general. Proprioception is the brain's ability to detect exactly where the body's various parts are and what they are doing, and include things like direction of motion, velocity, and force. An example of how this affects being accident-prone is inaccurate proprioception of the feet while walking, which can cause stumbling and tripping while carrying a Ming vase that results in its destruction. Another is inaccurate proprioception of the hands while moving a beaker of nitroglycerine in the laboratory that results in destruction of the entire laboratory. In these cases, the definition itself of just exactly what constitutes "accident-proneness" is part of the topic, since simply stumbling a bit while walking or inadvertently touching something with one's fingers doesn't get called "being accident-prone" until it causes a problem or destroys something important. Stumbling while walking on smooth flat ground or stumbling while walking on a narrow trail cut into the face of a high cliff have totally different consequences, and paradoxically part of not being accident-prone is knowing that one is accident-prone - many individuals know enough not to take the trail along the cliff. So, wether or not someone is "accident-prone" is highly subjective and is often determined by the particular circumstances and the ability of the individual to accurately gauge if he/she has what it takes to safely undertake something with a potential to be hazardous. See Proprioception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception About two individuals who may have been accident prone and caused serious long-term problems, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Daghlian,_Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core Linstrum (talk) 16:32, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

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Car ownership and phone ownership?

There's a section on here that talks about car ownership and cellphone and smartphone ownership that keeps getting added and removed. Is there any relevance to the topic at all? It just mentions statistics that seem to have nothing to do with accidents or accident aversion. Why does this keep ending up in the article? Jouva (talk) 14:45, 21 August 2022 (UTC)