Well, income is controlled for, so it’s not that.

I doubt any kind of consciousness has that degree of correlation. People that live in a situation that demands a car get a car, people with good alternatives get way fewer cars, mostly independently on how they thing. (My guess is that consciousness correlates much better to car model than to the car/no car choice.)

I imagine there’s some confounding variable that is highly correlated to car ownership.

Maybe zip code.

Less people travel by planes than other modes of transport.

If you look unitary numbers, planes in general are safer than most things, not by any absurd margin. And Boeing has more than one model that just isn’t safer than most things.

That should show you how bad management can destroy any kind of safety policy. But I guess it won’t, not by fault of the facts.

Take a look at airplanes for instance.

Those things that Boeing builds?