It's a theory that many women have held for years.
“男人是蠢货”，这是女人的眼中的真理。
And now a study has revealed men really are the more stupid sex.
Analysis of the Darwin Awards - an annual review of the most foolish ways people have died - has found almost 90 percent of the
accolades1 were 'won' by males.
Worthy2 candidates include a terrorist who opened his own letter bomb, and a man who attempted to travel by
hitching3 a shopping
trolley4 to a train.
It is named after Charles Darwin, the scientist famous for the theory of evolution.
Nominees5 have to improve the
gene6 pool by eliminating themselves from the human race using foolish methods.
Examples include the man who shot himself in the head with a 'spy pen' weapon to show his friend it was real, and the thief attempting to
purloin7 a steel cable from a lift
shaft8 - and unbolted it while
standing9 in the lift which then
plummeted10 to the ground,
killing11 him.
Of 332 independently verified
nominations12, 14 were ruled out of the analysis because they were shared by male and females - usually
adventurous13 couples in compromising positions.
Of the 318
valid14 cases remaining, 282 (88.7 percent) were awarded to males and just 36 to females, a
gender15 difference
entirely16 consistent with male idiot theory (MIT) that states men are idiots and idiots do stupid things.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, the researchers said it is puzzling men are willing to take such unnecessary risks - simply as a
rite17 of passage, in pursuit of male social
esteem18 or
solely19 in exchange for '
bragging20 rights'.
Dr Dennis Lendrem, of theUniversityofNewcastle, said: '
Idiotic21 risks are defined as senseless risks, where the apparent payoff is negligible or non existent, and the outcome is often extremely negative and often final.
'According to 'male idiot theory' (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behavior, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things.
'There are anecdotal data supporting MIT, but to date there has been no
systematic22 analysis of sex differences in idiotic risk taking behavior.'
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