Study confirms it-men are idiots

[packman]

"According to the available evidence, men are much more likely to be idiots (or at leas engage in idiotic behavior).

Researchers realized that even though we know men die, end up in emergency rooms, and engage in "risk-seeking" behavior much more frequently than women, scientists had never tackled "idiotic risk-taking behaviour" specifically.

They defined "idiotic" risk as senseless, "where the apparent payoff is negligible or non-existent, and the outcome is often extremely negative and often final."


Study (using the terms lightly here) goes on to cite statistics drawn from the Darwin Awards given out each year to show men are cited significantly more as engaging in idiotic behavior than women. Some of the cases are tragically humorous, like the three men playing Russian roulette with a land mine.

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/men-idiots-says-study-prestigious-171500692.html

[ismnotwasm]

1. And yet some of the most meticulous and cautious human beings I have ever met

Tend to be in the male-dominated engineer field. (Why it's male dominated is another topic)

For some reason, this reminds me of the horror movie "The Decent" with a group of risk taking women protagonists.

I don't believe men are more idiotic then women, I dont believe testosterone is the impetus (or at least not to the level its blamed for) rather socialization.

[seaglass]

3. OMG ism that movie scared the crap out of me. I saw it one night when I couldn't get to sleep at

about 2am and then I really couldn't get to sleep. It is one of the few movies I own.

[ismnotwasm]

7. I bought it recently

"The Decent 2" was on Netflicks-- but the reviews said it didn't come close to the original, so I waited-- it is a good horror movie

[packman]

4. Well, maybe not testosterone

but in a majority of these idiotic episodes, alcohol was involved.

[ismnotwasm]

6. LOL

That would explain it

[Bigmack]

2. I agree with the "study"...

Anybody ever hear a woman's last words that sounded anything like these last words from men..?

"Hey... watch this!" "Here...hold muh beer!" "I can do that!" "Na, I don't think we need to go to the hospital." "I can pass this guy." "I'm sure the power is off." "I've seen this done on TV."

Actual last words of Union General John Sedgwick ..

"Nonsense... they couldn't hit an elephant at this dist....."

[olddots]

5. well duh

Humans are the dumbest creatures in sector 7 .

[Baclava]

8. Is risk taking used as a cue in mate choice?

Human risk taking shows some striking sex differences, which, when viewed in the framework of evolutionary theory, raises the possibility that it is a sexually selected trait.

"Heroism is an attractive feature to potential mates because “a male who takes such altruistic risks for the sake of other people or their children would undoubtedly do the same thing for his mate and her children”

Sexual selection can provide a twofold rationale for why males show these risky behaviors, especially at ages of high fertility.

First, the variance and skew in male mating success may favor risk taking: High potential gains (e.g. in resources promoting partner acquisition) outweigh the high risks.

Second, males may take risks as a form of advertisement of their quality to both females and rival males. The argument for why risk taking might be an honest indicator of quality follows the logic of the handicap principle:

If risky behaviors are less of a danger to a high-quality male than to a low quality male, high-quality males can afford to take such risks more often, and thus rivals and potential mates should use risk taking as a cue to quality.

http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/ep04367393.pdf