Men really are more stupid than women, research shows

Sarah Knapton, Science Editor ^ | 11:30PM GMT 11 Dec 2014

[BenLurkin]

It's enough to start a new battle of the sexes, but when it comes to needless and untimely deaths, men win hands down.

A 20 year study of the Darwin Awards, an annual review of the most foolish way people have died, found almost 90 per cent were 'won' by males.

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Of 332 independently verified nominations 14 were ruled out of the analysis because they were shared by male and females - usually overly adventurous couples in compromising positions.

[muir_redwoods]

DaVinci, Einstein, Newton, Jefferson, Locke, Buddha, Lao Tsu, Confucius, Hawking, Galileo, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Mozart, Columbus, Lincoln and Alexander the Great.

Please provide a comparable list of women

[skinkinthegrass]

*wise move!* ...esp. If they're your Significance other.

[huldah1776]

This article was stupid. There are many kinds of intelligence and risky is fearless in my opinion. I am experienced in living with a fearless boy, teen, young man. He is a Marine.

[MrB]

I’m just saying I don’t ignore my wife’s intuition,
especially when it comes to people.

[rfreedom4u]

Women didn’t kill them on their own. Many abortion doctors are male. Not to mention male legislators and judges.

[huldah1776]

:-) then blurry monitor.

[longfellow]

Where’s the female stephen hawkings?

[BitWielder1]

My wife is the better half, I am only the bigger half.

[longtermmemmory]

ok this is a misleading headline in order to push for feminists. Accidental deaths are the issue. This is like saying more men have driving accidents or tickets during dates. Silly considering mostly men drive during dates.

[taxcontrol]

Agenda “research”

[Billthedrill]

Well, I've never seen a woman try to light a fart with a handgun firing incendiary ammunition, but that doesn't mean they're smarter than us.

Oh, wait, yes it does. Never mind.

[skinkinthegrass]

Hillary Rodham Clinton....*JUST KIDDING!*

[rfreedom4u]

Sometimes logic will give in to emotion when it doesn’t want to sleep on the couch.

[dangus]

Darwin goes the the most humorously unusual, dumbest ways to die. No-one laughs at the girl who slits her wrist because she thinks it will get her more attention. But the guy who uses a bullet as a fuse in his car and ends up shooting himself in the nuts? Or whose dog retrieves the dynamite stick that he intended to blow a hole in the ice? Now that’s funny. (Except for the poor dog.)

[BitWielder1]

Seriously, whenever one of us have to climb up on the roof, who do you think will be?
Men are expendable. We know that. We are supposed to be brave and chivalrous and take the risks for the little woman.
And we do. It's our duty.
Now we're called stupid for it. Thanks a lot!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Both men and women do stupid things about equally. It’s just expressed in obvious and subtle ways.

[dangus]

Obviously you’re just kidding. He plainly asked for a list of WOMEN.

[Born to Conserve]

Difficult tasks have better payoffs. Women insult men for failing at difficult tasks, and then they claim their “fair share” when men succeed at those difficult tasks.

[Resolute Conservative]

Was the study done by women?

[huldah1776]

Also, nothing more frightening to a liberal feminist than a man of courage.