Introduction
After the sinking of the Titanic, for decades of years that have passed, people have come to belief that some societal norms of women and children first is what has the ability of increasing their survival advantage as compared to men in maritime disasters. Although it is the responsibility of the captains and their crews to offer equal survival priorities to passengers, female have been noted to have distinctive survival advantage unlike men. Since captains and their crew have a higher survival rate than passengers, it is the responsibility of the captain to enforce normative behaviors regardless of their age, gender, or social class (Gleicher, 2006 p. 256) Likewise, there is no any association between the duration of such a calamity as well as the impact of social norms. Therefore, aim of this report entails investing the impact of gender, age, occupation, and social norms in determining the survival rates of maritime disaster that occurred to Titanic ship.
Question 1
From the information collected, the survival rate of male is 20% while that of female is 80%. The difference which exists between men and female is that both of them are subjected to various norms or rules of helping behavior. For instance, men are generally expected to be in the forefront in helping people in emergency situations while female are expected to participate in long term care cover.
Given that event m (sinking of the boat) could have occurred, then will obtain our conditional probability as;
P (n/m) = P (m and n) / p (m)
For female P (n/m) = 1/3
For male P (n/m) =1/2 (Haynes & O'brien, 2000 p.153)
Question 2
A pie-chart illustrating the jobs for all male first class passengers
1 1
KEY
A= Businessmen, sales manager, stockbroker, dealer
B= Military, politician, doctor, gambler, lawyer
C= shipbuilders, landowner, manufacturer, ship-owner, mechanical engineer, electrician
D = property developer/real estate, banker,
E=jeweler, servant, sculptor, writer, gambler, metallurgist, architect, aviator, artist,
F= merchant, dealer, clerk, scholar, bibliophile, sportsman
A pie-chart illustrating the jobs for all female first class passengers
KEY
1 = personal maid
2 = nursemaid
3=singer
4=dressmaker
5=secretary
6=governess
7=journalist
Question 3
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Fare ($5)
The small variations in the fare paid by male passengers is because the male who were in the ship had several jobs to do which in return made it possible for them to diminish huge disparity in classes they were to pay for.
Question 4
A histogram illustrating the fare paid by female passengers
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Fare (x$5)
(Osborn, 2006 p.53)
The huge variation in the fare paid by female passengers is because most of the relatively paying jobs are occupied by few of them which in return gave the opportunity of boarding respective classes within the ship.
Question 5
A scatter-graph showing the fare paid against the age of each FEMALE passenger
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Age
(Webber & Wallace, 2011 p.145)
From the above scatter-graph, the correlation which exists is that the amount of fare that was paid by female mainly depended on their age as well as the work they do. With better paying job, the higher the chances of boarding the first class and vice versa (Gleicher, 2006 p.256)
Conclusion
Considering the incident which occurred to the Titanic ship, it is evident human behavior and societal norms have a huge impact on the maritime life threatening situations. The data collected indicates that women have higher chances of surviving such disasters as compared to men. Moreover, the role played by each leader is also another factor which affects the survival patterns of the civilians during vacation. On the other hand, regardless of the social status of passengers, it is the responsibility of each individual to ensure that their safety have been adhered to. The reason for that is because it was noted that one of the factors that resulted to the death of hundreds of men is because there was bias when it came to supply of life boats.
References
GLEICHER, D. (2006). The rescue of the third class on the Titanic: a revisionist history. St. John's, Newfoundland, Internat. Maritime Economic History Assoc.
HAYNES, S. N., & O'BRIEN, W. H. (2000). Principles and practice of behavioral assessment. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum.
OSBORN, C. E. (2006). Statistical applications for health information management. Sudbury, Mass, Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
WEBBER, L., & WALLACE, M. (2011). Quality Control for Dummies. Hoboken, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. http://rbdigital.oneclickdigital.com.
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