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People are not the problem /// men are!
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Fox News
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Date: December 12, 2014 03:46PM
Darwin Awards study says men are far more idiotic than women
Scientists analyze the past 10 years of silly, avoidable deaths and find that almost 90 percent of the "protagonists" in these scenarios were male.
by Chris Matyszczyk
Why is it that men do such stupid things? Because they're men, perhaps?
Short Mark/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET
There is nothing funny about death.
Some people, though, upon learning the circumstances surrounding a death, have to chuckle because they attribute a certain amount of blame to the deceased. This is because the deceased was doing something that he or she really shouldn't have been doing.
Most of the time, it's a "he" who shouldn't have done it, say researchers from the UK's Newcastle University.
In their study of Darwin Award winners from 1995 to 2014, the researchers offer a depressingly clear vision of, well, idiotic behavior. Published in the British Medical Journal, their paper is titled, "The Darwin Awards: Sex Differences In Idiotic Behaviour."
Should you be unfamiliar with the Darwin Awards, these celebrate those who, in the researchers' words, "must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic manner that their action ensures one less idiot will survive."
There are five criteria: death, style, veracity, capability and self-selection. These people didn't die in unfortunate circumstances. They, in the judges' view, truly did something ineffably stupid to accelerate their death.
The researchers pointed to a couple of examples. These included the terrorist who sent a letter bomb without the requisite number of stamps. The letter bomb had a return address. When it arrived back at the terrorist's house, he opened it. Yes, without thinking.
What the boffins found during their study were 332 confirmed Darwin Awards nominees. In 14 of these, men and women were in idiotic cahoots. But of the remaining 318 cases, a stupendous 282 involved only men. This, your calculator will tell you, represents 88.7 percent.
Perhaps because they're from the gritty northern town of Newcastle, the researchers declared boldly that this was overwhelming proof of Male Idiot Theory.
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They did toss in a few caveats. Perhaps men are nominated more often (by women). Perhaps the media finds writing about stupid men easier than writing about stupid women. Perhaps men just drink more. (I'm not sure that's true in the UK any longer.)
At heart, though, I fear these results will offer little surprise to the remaining gene pool.
Before insisting they will continue their research in a Christmas party setting (really), the scientists offered one more curious sentence: "It is puzzling that males are willing to take such unnecessary risks -- simply as a rite of passage, in pursuit of male social esteem, or solely in exchange for 'bragging rights.'"
Somehow, I think many people won't find that puzzling at all.
If you look at the vast majority of utterly stupid actions that have mangled history and humanity, somewhere at their heart will be a man (and a proud one too).
-http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/darwin-awards-studdy-suggests-men-a-lot-less-intelligent-than-women/
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2014 02:34PM by Fox News.
Scientists analyze the past 10 years of silly, avoidable deaths and find that almost 90 percent of the "protagonists" in these scenarios were male.
by Chris Matyszczyk
Why is it that men do such stupid things? Because they're men, perhaps?
Short Mark/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET
There is nothing funny about death.
Some people, though, upon learning the circumstances surrounding a death, have to chuckle because they attribute a certain amount of blame to the deceased. This is because the deceased was doing something that he or she really shouldn't have been doing.
Most of the time, it's a "he" who shouldn't have done it, say researchers from the UK's Newcastle University.
In their study of Darwin Award winners from 1995 to 2014, the researchers offer a depressingly clear vision of, well, idiotic behavior. Published in the British Medical Journal, their paper is titled, "The Darwin Awards: Sex Differences In Idiotic Behaviour."
Should you be unfamiliar with the Darwin Awards, these celebrate those who, in the researchers' words, "must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic manner that their action ensures one less idiot will survive."
There are five criteria: death, style, veracity, capability and self-selection. These people didn't die in unfortunate circumstances. They, in the judges' view, truly did something ineffably stupid to accelerate their death.
The researchers pointed to a couple of examples. These included the terrorist who sent a letter bomb without the requisite number of stamps. The letter bomb had a return address. When it arrived back at the terrorist's house, he opened it. Yes, without thinking.
What the boffins found during their study were 332 confirmed Darwin Awards nominees. In 14 of these, men and women were in idiotic cahoots. But of the remaining 318 cases, a stupendous 282 involved only men. This, your calculator will tell you, represents 88.7 percent.
Perhaps because they're from the gritty northern town of Newcastle, the researchers declared boldly that this was overwhelming proof of Male Idiot Theory.
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They did toss in a few caveats. Perhaps men are nominated more often (by women). Perhaps the media finds writing about stupid men easier than writing about stupid women. Perhaps men just drink more. (I'm not sure that's true in the UK any longer.)
At heart, though, I fear these results will offer little surprise to the remaining gene pool.
Before insisting they will continue their research in a Christmas party setting (really), the scientists offered one more curious sentence: "It is puzzling that males are willing to take such unnecessary risks -- simply as a rite of passage, in pursuit of male social esteem, or solely in exchange for 'bragging rights.'"
Somehow, I think many people won't find that puzzling at all.
If you look at the vast majority of utterly stupid actions that have mangled history and humanity, somewhere at their heart will be a man (and a proud one too).
-http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/darwin-awards-studdy-suggests-men-a-lot-less-intelligent-than-women/
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2014 02:34PM by Fox News.
Re: People are not the problem /// men are!
Posted by:
sane
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Date: December 12, 2014 03:54PM
Fox News Wrote:
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> Darwin Awards study says men are far more idiotic
Darwin himself was no bastion of intelligence. His evolutionary theories are an insult to those who DO have intelligence.
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> Darwin Awards study says men are far more idiotic
Darwin himself was no bastion of intelligence. His evolutionary theories are an insult to those who DO have intelligence.
>
Re: People are not the problem /// men are!
Posted by:
Fox News
()
Date: December 12, 2014 04:00PM
sane Wrote:
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> Fox News Wrote:
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> > Darwin Awards study says men are far more
> idiotic
>
> Darwin himself was no bastion of intelligence. His
> evolutionary theories are an insult to those who
> DO have intelligence.
> >
i.e. inteligent design
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> Fox News Wrote:
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> > Darwin Awards study says men are far more
> idiotic
>
> Darwin himself was no bastion of intelligence. His
> evolutionary theories are an insult to those who
> DO have intelligence.
> >
i.e. inteligent design
Re: People are not the problem /// men are!
Posted by:
Priapus
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Date: December 12, 2014 09:32PM
The OP can't even do a decent cut and paste.
Re: People are not the problem /// men are!
Posted by:
Fox News
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Date: December 12, 2014 10:00PM
Priapus Wrote:
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> The OP can't even do a decent cut and paste.
That's what she said
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> The OP can't even do a decent cut and paste.
That's what she said
Re: People are not the problem /// men are!
Posted by:
Regular Dude
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Date: December 12, 2014 11:41PM
We take risks and kill ourselves because we are married to women with jumpy hormones that drive us to it.
Why else would you walk on the beltway drunk at 3 am in a dark suitsuit, unless that seemed better than going home.
Why else would you walk on the beltway drunk at 3 am in a dark suitsuit, unless that seemed better than going home.
Re: People are not the problem /// men are!
Posted by:
dkJwv
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Date: December 14, 2014 02:27PM
FOX news is totally funded by nigger money printed in DC now
every breath they take is a supposed story that is pro-republican which in the end makes republicans look bad
continually they play into the hands of democrat stories, stories democrats want discussed. ie, like they NEVER EVER discuss how much money obama has printed or where it has gone
ie, let me see the fucking accounting books, the ones where all 3 copies agree
Re: People are not the problem /// men are!
Posted by:
Fox News
()
Date: December 14, 2014 02:33PM
dkJwv Wrote:
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>
> FOX news is totally funded by nigger money printed
> in DC now
>
> every breath they take is a supposed story that is
> pro-republican which in the end makes republicans
> look bad
>
> continually they play into the hands of democrat
> stories, stories democrats want discussed. ie,
> like they NEVER EVER discuss how much money obama
> has printed or where it has gone
>
> ie, let me see the fucking accounting books, the
> ones where all 3 copies agree
>
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>
>
> in DC now
>
> every breath they take is a supposed story that is
> pro-republican which in the end makes republicans
> look bad
>
> continually they play into the hands of democrat
> stories, stories democrats want discussed. ie,
> like they NEVER EVER discuss how much money obama
> has printed or where it has gone
>
> ie, let me see the fucking accounting books, the
> ones where all 3 copies agree
>