The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour

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 D...

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Autores principales: Lendrem, Ben Alexander Daniel, Lendrem, Dennis William, Gray, Andy, Isaacs, John Dudley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4263959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25500113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7094
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-42639592014-12-16 The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour Lendrem, Ben Alexander Daniel Lendrem, Dennis William Gray, Andy Isaacs, John Dudley BMJ Research 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. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2014-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC4263959/ /pubmed/25500113 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7094 Text en © Lendrem et al 2014 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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