Posted on 12/14/2014 6:12:01 AM PST by NOBO2012
If you are a woman, it’s a pretty seductive argument : “Research shows men really are more stupid than women.”
However, when your entire research universe is drawn from a self-selecting pool of low IQ specimens -
- it’s hard to give the conclusion too much weight:
Sex differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency hospital admissions, and mortality are well documented. However, little is known about sex differences in idiotic risk taking behaviour. This paper reviews the data on winners of the Darwin Award over a 20 year period (1995-2014). Winners of the Darwin Award must eliminate themselves from the gene pool in such an idiotic manner that their action ensures one less idiot will survive. This paper reports a marked sex difference in Darwin Award winners: males are significantly more likely to receive the award than females (P<0.0001). We discuss some of the reasons for this difference.
To be clear: you need to be really stupid to be part of this “study:”
Yeah, you need to be this stupid to get on this ride.
Winners of the Darwin Award must die in such an idiotic manner that “their action ensures the long-term survival of the species, by selectively allowing one less idiot to survive.” The Darwin Awards Committee attempts to make a clear distinction between idiotic deaths and accidental deaths. For instance, Darwin Awards are unlikely to be awarded to individuals who shoot themselves in the head while demonstrating that a gun is unloaded. This occurs too often and is classed as an accident. In contrast, candidates shooting themselves in the head to demonstrate that a gun is loaded may be eligible for a Darwin Award—such as the man who shot himself in the head with a “spy pen” weapon to show his friend that it was real.
In fact, if you were to use the U.S. Congress as the control group, you might justifiably conclude that the sexes are equally stupid; indeed, you could even conclude that stupidity is an equal opportunity predator.
I swear, between stupidity and wimpiness America may well be doomed.
Now it seems our best and brightest are so easily traumatized by current events that they can’t even take their finals. Here’s part of a plea on behalf of Harvard Law students, pushing for exam delays over the Ferguson and Staten Island grand jury decisions:
Unless you act now, you will allow the systematic underperformance of a great many students of color and allies on this campus on their exams.
We cannot walk away from our pain, and we cannot ignore our call to act against the injustice that threatens our families and our commitment to the justice system.
This is more than a personal emergency. This is a national emergency.
I’ll say it’s a national emergency: we are either too stupid or too wimpy to continue to thrive.
Megyn has some thoughts, and some guests with thoughts on this latest national emergency:
I say give them as much “grieving and healing” time as they need; if it were not for our Ivy League’s really Big Brains how ever would we run this stupid country?
Gruber: Big Brained MIT Prof thinks you’re chopped liver
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Posted from: Michelle Obama’s Mirror
Be careful who you ask...
Seriously...I suspect the problem with this study is that we often find it funny if a man kills himself doing something stupid....but we find it tragic if a woman does the same thing. It’s more acceptable to laugh at men.
And “funny” is really what the Darwin Awards are all about.
Tell that to the women who suffered through 40-50 years of dumb blonde jokes.
“Tell that to the women who suffered through 40-50 years of dumb blonde jokes.”
Why? They wouldn’t understand it if I did. ;-)
LOL!
Look around you, stupid liberals. Everything you see that wasn’t created by God was designed and built by males.
I am a female but I have eyes to see reality.
Maybe not in California, but the rest of us are somewhat grounded. :)
Kind of hard for them to suffer, when they don't understand them.
You beat me to it.
copycat.
Shouldn't that be KopyKat?
I am a female but I have eyes to see reality."
See my tag line. If men are so stupid, how'd they do THAT?
LOL!
LOL...potato or potatoe’, tomato or tomatoe. either or..
... With fava beans and a nice Chianti.
That was an Orwellian transition we made, from making jokes about people who were dumb, to substituting the advanced group of blond humans as the new "dumb".
As Camille Paglia says “”If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.””
Here are a couple of more quotes that explain what she means by that.
“”We could make an epic catalog of male achievements, from paved roads, indoor plumbing, and washing machine to eyeglasses, antibiotics and disposable diapers. We enjoy safe, fresh milk and meat, and vegetables and tropical fruits heaped in snowbound cities. When I cross the George Washington Bridge or any of America’s great bridges, I think: men have done this. Construction is a sublime male poetry. When I see a see a giant crane passing on a flatbed truck, I pause in awe and reverence as would for a church processions.””
“”If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them.””
Camille Paglia
Oh well I’ve been called worse than dumb, and all that. However I’ll put my Superior IQ up against the majority of Americans.....and that was before college.
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