Les hommes sont plus idiots que les femmes : c’est la science qui le dit
Cette année, le BMJ a décidé de frapper fort. Il consacre son titre principal de l’édition de Noël à une étude britannique qui se propose de démontrer la « différence des sexes dans les conduites stupides ». Pour ce faire, il a choisi comme échantillon l’ensemble des lauréats des Darwin Awards. Depuis vingt ans, ces prix décernés en Californie récompensent ceux qui « ont choisi d’améliorer le patrimoine génétique de l’espèce… en s’en extrayant définitivement ». Dit autrement, ils honorent les morts les plus bêtes.
Yes, men are beasts! From BMJ we have:
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
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
Yes, most dumb things resulting in hospital are done by men. Is that good or bad. Then there was Madame Curie, and her radium and other radioactive substances used indiscriminately around Paris. People just died in that case and she got a Nobel Prize.
Then there is the MIT Technology Review article. This used to be the alumni magazine, like other Universities, but it was taken over by some Silicon Valley hipster I gather and has become a mouth piece from trendy stuff, and has little if anything to do with MIT. But the piece mentioned above is an interview which has the individual stating:
...the upper levels of tech, you are generally dealing with white men who have been coddled their entire lives, and they have rarely encountered even mild criticism. They take it as a really crushing, violent blow to their egos. It’s a big challenge for people from marginalized and underrepresented groups: we have to walk around the workplace all day on eggshells, treating them like soft kittens.
...the upper levels of tech, you are generally dealing with white men who have been coddled their entire lives, and they have rarely encountered even mild criticism. They take it as a really crushing, violent blow to their egos. It’s a big challenge for people from marginalized and underrepresented groups: we have to walk around the workplace all day on eggshells, treating them like soft kittens.
That is part of the nicer part of the interview. So men are stupid, they are privileged, get what they do not earn, etc....
I guess given the performance of some MIT faculty recently that one could walk away with such an opinion....just stay away from the faculty who glow...it may be radium. Oh, and yes, what about that fund raising request again?
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