Darwin Awards ‘winners’ are overwhelmingly male, analysis reveals
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in economics of media and culture, health economics, liberalism, population economics, technological progress Tags: Darwin awards
- Darwin Awards is an annual review of most foolish way people have died
- Nominees improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race using foolish methods
- Scientists were surprised to discover 90% of award ‘winners’ were male
- Worthy candidates include a terrorist who opened his own letter bomb
- Another man attempted to travel by hitching a shopping trolley to a train
According to “male idiot theory” (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things…
In addition, alcohol may play an important part in many of the events leading to a Darwin Award. It is conceivable that the sex difference is attributable to sociobehavioural differences in alcohol use.
Anecdotal data support the hypothesis that alcohol makes men feel “bulletproof” after a few drinks, and it would be naïve to rule this out.
For example, the three men who played a variation on Russian roulette alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine.
HT: dailymail.co.uk and The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour | The BMJ.
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