=+44. Titanic, again. Newspaper headlines at the time and traditional wisdom in the succeeding decades have held that women and children escaped the Titanic in greater proportion than men. Here’s a table with the relevant data. Do you think that survival was independent of whether the person was male or female? Defend your conclusion.

Female Male Total Alive 343 367 710 Dead 127 1364 1491 Total 470 1731 2201