JerryB
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Hi folks,
From today's newspaper:
New research has rigorously tested MaIe Idiot Theory, which posits that, well men are idiots and are driven to take ridiculous risks despite the clear prospects for self-harm, and for no defensible reason.
Newly published by the venerable British Medical Journal (in its annual tongue-in-cheek Christmas issue), the landmark study has shown that Male Idiot Theory holds up under scientific scrutiny. The inquiry plumbs an important but little-known database to assess gender differences in an individual's likelihood to engage in profoundly idiotic behavior: the Darwin Awards.
Winners of the Darwin Awards, which are handed out at random times, and almost always posthumously, must be found to have died (or to have sterilized themselves) in the conduct of activity that is so stupid, pointless and predictably self-destructive that they can truly be said to have done humanity a great service by removing themselves from the human gene pool.
Since 1995, 413 nominations have been forwarded to the Darwin Award committee, and 332 have been independently verified and confirmed by the awards panel.
Recipients of this award include the terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage, and who unthinkingly opened his own letter when it was returned (apparently, because he was conscientious enough to include a return address).
After excluding urban legends, unverified accounts and honorable mentions, the study's four authors, all male, found that 318 awardees met their study's eligibility requirements. A lopsided 282 of those awardees ( 88.7 percent ) were male.
:shocked:
Jerry Baumchen
From today's newspaper:
New research has rigorously tested MaIe Idiot Theory, which posits that, well men are idiots and are driven to take ridiculous risks despite the clear prospects for self-harm, and for no defensible reason.
Newly published by the venerable British Medical Journal (in its annual tongue-in-cheek Christmas issue), the landmark study has shown that Male Idiot Theory holds up under scientific scrutiny. The inquiry plumbs an important but little-known database to assess gender differences in an individual's likelihood to engage in profoundly idiotic behavior: the Darwin Awards.
Winners of the Darwin Awards, which are handed out at random times, and almost always posthumously, must be found to have died (or to have sterilized themselves) in the conduct of activity that is so stupid, pointless and predictably self-destructive that they can truly be said to have done humanity a great service by removing themselves from the human gene pool.
Since 1995, 413 nominations have been forwarded to the Darwin Award committee, and 332 have been independently verified and confirmed by the awards panel.
Recipients of this award include the terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage, and who unthinkingly opened his own letter when it was returned (apparently, because he was conscientious enough to include a return address).
After excluding urban legends, unverified accounts and honorable mentions, the study's four authors, all male, found that 318 awardees met their study's eligibility requirements. A lopsided 282 of those awardees ( 88.7 percent ) were male.
:shocked:
Jerry Baumchen
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