Last week, Ars Technica broke the news that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) quietly took down their 2022 crash data, for the rumored purpose to scrub gender data from its Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). At the time, the records had simply vanished from the public database, leaving only speculation… now that the data has been reposted, we see that Ars Technica had it exactly right.
So, what does that mean? [Removed] Attribute 3 was “Other (e.g., “X”, Non-Binary, Not Specified, etc.)“, according to Ars Technica’s reporting. The variable “Gender” was also renamed to “Sex.”
They’re really obsessively concerned with whether your naughty bits are “innie” or “outie”, why don’t they change it all to “Naughty Bits: [Innie|Outie]”?
