Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
'Women and children first'
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 6th, 2008
Well, according to data analysis by Michael Friendly, a professor with the Psychology Department at York University, the boats launched from each side of the doomed ship show a different pattern when it comes to percentage of men on board: on the port (left) side, the first few boats were only lightly loaded, and contained a large number of male passengers and crewmen. On the starboard side, where good order was maintained throughout, the boats were fully loaded – and almost completely with women and children.
Finding the right graphical representation for data often plays a key role in science discovery, and Friendly is speaking today on the history of graphic analysis...
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