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Men take more ‘idiotic risks,’ study finds

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By Bahar Gholipour

Published December 12, 2014
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Men tend to take more risks than women do, and they also seem to be ahead of women in engaging in risky behavior that is extremely "idiotic," according to researchers who revealed in a new study that the majority of the receivers of a Darwin Award are men.

To win a Darwin Award, a darkly humorous honor that has existed for more than 20 years, a person must die in "an extraordinarily idiotic manner," and thereby protect the human gene pool and improve the species' chances of long-term survival. For example, one person in the new study was a "terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage stamps and who, on its return, unthinkingly opened his own letter," the researchers wrote.

 
 

In a special Christmas issue of the BMJ (a lighthearted edition of the medical journal that normally publishes serious research), researchers in the United Kingdom used the Darwin Award database to examine an idea they call "male idiot theory," to see whether men's generally higher inclination for risk-taking extends to taking "idiotic risks." [Macho Man: 10 Wild Facts About His Body]

The researchers reviewed the stories of all nominees for the Darwin Award from 1995 to 2014, noting the gender of the winner. To win a Darwin Award, the story of how the death happened must be verifiable, and the person must have been capable of sound judgment, while showing "an astonishing misapplication of common sense."

The researchers looked at 332 cases confirmed by the Darwin Awards Committee to be true incidents. For their analysis, they excluded 14 cases of deaths of adventurous couples, leaving them with 318 cases.

Of those, just 36 were women. The other 282 winners, or 88.7 percent, were men, the researchers found.

The findings support the researchers' theory that "men are idiots, and idiots do stupid things," they said.

The theory could also explain some of the gender gap previous studies have found in risk-seeking behaviors, emergency department visits and mortality, the researchers said. Men are more likely than women to be admitted to an emergency department after accidental injuries or with a sport injury, and they are more likely to die in traffic accidents.

Men may be more likely to play riskier sports or have dangerous occupations, but they might also do more stupid things, according to the study.

Still, it is also possible that the makeup of Darwin Award winners is biased toward men because cases involving women may not get reported as often.

In addition, alcohol use and its effects may be different among men and women and could potentially impact how many of each group will end up in an event leading to a Darwin Award, the researchers added.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/12/12/men-take-more-idiotic-risks-study-finds/



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another study recently found that women have more unwanted pregnancies than men

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I read a study in which it was found that both men and women shower naked equally.

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Yeah, and did you know everybody poops??

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Dona Worry Be Happy wrote:

Yeah, and did you know everybody poops??

 Next you're gonna tell me that Santa Claus is not real!!!!!

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Men take more risks of all kinds. Some are "idiotic", others serve them we'll--they are more likely to take career risks or make riskier investments, for example.

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Yeah, and did you know everybody poops??

 Next you're gonna tell me that Santa Claus is not real!!!!!

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HE IS TOO REAL!!!!! 



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Dona Worry Be Happy wrote:

Yeah, and did you know everybody poops??

Do you have proof? Can you cite a link??? 



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Did any of you know that your nose smells? There was a study done. Amazing!

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Men are also more likely to get testicular cancer.

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This just in...dogs more likely to bark than cats. And sh!t still stinks.

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If you don't know how to swim & you go in the ocean, you might drown.

I've heard rumors of this happening in pools & rivers & lakes as well...

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And, men are also more likely to take more calculated risks as well, like going to the Moon, etc. Sooo, we kind of need male bravado for progress.

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

And, men are also more likely to take more calculated risks as well, like going to the Moon, etc. Sooo, we kind of need male bravado for progress.

 Way to ruin a perfectly good thread...evileye

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They were preceeded by men flan. We CAN celebrate the good qualities of men without thinking that is some slam to women.

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I like men. I like male bravado. I also like a man who opens my door, pulls out my chair, takes the things I am carrying for me and all those other things that a lot call bad these days.

I am secure enough in my womanhood to not be offended by a man being a man.

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I like men. I like male bravado. I also like a man who opens my door, pulls out my chair, takes the things I am carrying for me and all those other things that a lot call bad these days.

I am secure enough in my womanhood to not be offended by a man being a man.

 That's called manners. WHO said that it was "bad?"

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flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:

I like men. I like male bravado. I also like a man who opens my door, pulls out my chair, takes the things I am carrying for me and all those other things that a lot call bad these days.

I am secure enough in my womanhood to not be offended by a man being a man.

 That's called manners. WHO said that it was "bad?"

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Oh, my dear flan. You need to reacquaint yourself with the misandric views of some women ubber liberals out there. They despise chivalry.  It might make women look weak. no



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This study was a waste of research dollars!

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

And, men are also more likely to take more calculated risks as well, like going to the Moon, etc. Sooo, we kind of need male bravado for progress.

 But was because in the 50's and 60's most women stayed home to raise the kids.  They didn't put their brain power to work to be engineers.  If the space program was today, it would be different, as in more of NASA's engineers developing the vehicles would be women as would astronauts.

 



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just Czech wrote:
flan327 wrote:
lilyofcourse wrote:

I like men. I like male bravado. I also like a man who opens my door, pulls out my chair, takes the things I am carrying for me and all those other things that a lot call bad these days.

I am secure enough in my womanhood to not be offended by a man being a man.

 That's called manners. WHO said that it was "bad?"

flan

Oh, my dear flan. You need to reacquaint yourself with the misandric views of some women ubber liberals out there. They despise chivalry.  It might make women look weak. no

 That's right!  They can take care of themselves!  Unless they are drunk....or need birth control....



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flan327 wrote:
Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

And, men are also more likely to take more calculated risks as well, like going to the Moon, etc. Sooo, we kind of need male bravado for progress.

 Way to ruin a perfectly good thread...evileye

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I'll give you Amelia.  She was an early pioneer.  Sally--not so much.  She went on a space shuttle, well into the life of the space shuttle program, and long after any moon landing.  Sure, she happened to be first, but she hadn't gone where no man had gone before.  It was a pretty well trod path.   



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And, men are also more likely to take more calculated risks as well, like going to the Moon, etc. Sooo, we kind of need male bravado for progress.

 But was because in the 50's and 60's most women stayed home to raise the kids.  They didn't put their brain power to work to be engineers.  If the space program was today, it would be different, as in more of NASA's engineers developing the vehicles would be women as would astronauts.

 

Who is arguing?  But, you can't rewrite history it is what it is.  I am teaching my girls' team the history of basketball as part of my coaching duties.  We started with Dr. Naismith of course.  But, women began playing basketball a little over 1 yr after the game was invented thanks to Senda Berenson.   However, women playing basketball was "unseemly".  And there was much resistance.  A team called the All American Redheads arose and traveled across the USA and overseas playing men's basketball and they were very skilled and Harlem globetrotteresque.  And, the AAU would not allow women for years.  Women's basketball wasn't even added to the Olympics until 1976.  And in college the first NCAA championship game was not until 1982!

 

  So, part of me saying that is of course the recognition that men also have been given more opportunities.  But, men certainly have paved the way as well in  inventing things like bungee cord jumping, etc. 

 

 



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