The The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviours: sex differences in idiotic behaviour

bmj ^ | 11 December 2014 | Ben Alexander Daniel Lendrem

[Brother Cracker]

[a fool in paradise]

I'm I'm seeing double double

[Brother Cracker]

[shove_it]

Darwin Award mousepad ... ...http://www.zazzle.com/darwinawards

[PghBaldy]

I suppose they wouldn’t consider the many women who get involved with obvious disturbed men, and then are murdered. For whatever reason, people find dead men funnier than dead women.

[mountn man]

I've seen a lot of pictures, usually from other countries, where guys do really bone headed things to get the job done.

Granted, they are doing bone headed things, but they are also in the position to get things done, that most women won't find themselves in.

[Sherman Logan]

#1 isn’t really all that stupid as long as his buddies don’t decide to walk away.

[shove_it]

Male and female Darwin Award winners. Line H0 indicates expected percentages under the null hypothesis that males and females are equally idiotic

Statistics don't lie, do they?

[HangnJudge]

[oblomov]

Now let’s see the same chart for Fields Medal winners.

[NorthMountain]

Drug dealers all have girlfriends ... those girls are far dumber than the boys in the pictures you posted.

[RegulatorCountry]

Men as a group are risk-takers. There are positives and there are negatives associated with risk-taking.

Women as a group are risk-averse. There are positives and there are negatives associated with being risk-averse.

That said, I’m not certain how such a thing would be determined but I suspect women’s idiocies in seeking to avoid risk have gotten many, many men killed. Just watch heavy traffic during any daily commute, the cheery waving in of traffic to be “nice” without looking to see if there’s a truck coming down the lane between them, braking to change lanes or changing lanes at random because the inside lane feels safer or whatever the thought might have been.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Of course men take idiotic risks. Evolution selects for males who take idiotic risks. The men who don't take stupid, unreasonable risks never get laid.

I mean, consider my first two marriages. Talk about taking stupid, unreasonable risks with high probabilities of negative outcomes...

[TexasGator]

” the terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage stamps “

Anyone have the original story on this?

[Brother Cracker]

[Fightin Whitey]

Brother that one (#15) hurts to watch!

[shove_it]

[Brother Cracker]

[Swordmaker]

Statistics don't lie, do they?

True. . . but liars use statistics.

[ansel12]

Why does lightning hate males.