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Post: 95154549_1 created on Fri, 12 Dec 2014 22:12:22 +0000
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Here, we look at a study reviewing data from the Darwin Awards, which concludes that - scientifically - men are idiots.

The Darwin Awards is an annual hall of fame commemorating those considered to have died in exceptionally stupid ways.

Wendy Northcutt, author of the Darwin Awards' website, describes the awards' rationale:

"In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival."

Although many of the early entrants in the Darwin Awards - collected during the web's relative infancy in 1993 - turned out to be hoaxes or urban legends, verified-as-real winners include:

James Burns of Michigan, who died while attempting to repair his truck from underneath while it was still in motion
Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who won a "contest of masculinity," trumping his friends - who had stripped naked and were hitting each other over the head with frozen turnips - by cutting off his own head with a chainsaw
A terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage and, upon its return, unthinkingly opened his own letter.

'Men are idiots and idiots do stupid things,' study finds

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Post: 95154549_2 created on Fri, 12 Dec 2014 22:48:32 +0000
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A terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage and, upon its return, unthinkingly opened his own letter.

Achmed...?

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Post: 95154549_3 created on Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:08:41 +0000
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Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking?

Sorry, fellas, got bad news for ya...

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Post: 95154549_4 created on Fri, 12 Dec 2014 23:56:18 +0000
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In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the Darwin Awards commemorate individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives. Darwin Award winners eliminate themselves in an extraordinarily idiotic manner, thereby improving our species' chances of long-term survival.

What this study doesn't take into account is social norms.

Pretty much this article is saying that men are inherently more stupid and they're killing themselves off by doing risky things, and it's subsequently improving our gene pool. But we live in a society where men are taught since they were boys that doing something dangerous is a part of being macho.

So I don't know if this is "natural selection" so much as it is a product of societal expectations. It doesn't help the gene pool if society still encourages such behavior in males.

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Post: 95154549_5 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 05:06:55 +0000
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Ah, the sexism and misandry...

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Post: 95154549_6 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 08:53:50 +0000
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A terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage and, upon its return, unthinkingly opened his own letter.

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Post: 95154549_7 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 09:14:51 +0000
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Ah, the sexism and misandry...

You know they're just gonna argue either that this wasn't sexism, and misandry doesn't exist, or that this article is somehow sexist towards women, because a pile of male corpses is a joke, while an injured woman is a tragedy.

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Post: 95154549_8 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:01:41 +0000
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Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who won a "contest of masculinity," trumping his friends - who had stripped naked and were hitting each other over the head with frozen turnips - by cutting off his own head with a chainsaw

rofl I literally laughed out loud at that. For three whole minutes. The guy died, yeah, but the stupidity of it is absolutely laughable. My sides actually hurt.

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Post: 95154549_9 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 10:37:14 +0000
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rofl I literally laughed out loud at that. For three whole minutes. The guy died, yeah, but the stupidity of it is absolutely laughable. My sides actually hurt.

I can only say I hope alcohol was involved. Cuz that's just...why? Why. Why would you get naked and have a frozen turnip fight. How does the frozen turnip fight involve a chainsaw? What the everloving hell happened that s**t went from naked turnips to chainsaw head? Went zero to wtf very quickly.

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Post: 95154549_10 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 13:17:24 +0000
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Ah, the sexism and misandry...

Yeah, no. While the story claims the study is joking in nature, it's still sexist as hell. It's just as vile as if someone came up with a farcical study with the conclusion that women are innately bad at math or some s**t.

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Post: 95154549_11 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:06:21 +0000
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Yeah, a common mistake people make is to apply this theory to people the same way you can apply it to culture-less animals.

Kaltros

Ah, the sexism and misandry...

What? Weren't you quick to quote some study about how a group of people were unintelligent?

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Post: 95154549_12 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 18:23:38 +0000
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The strong and smart will survive long enough to copulate.

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Post: 95154549_13 created on Sat, 13 Dec 2014 21:53:51 +0000
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Ah, the sexism and misandry...

What? Weren't you quick to quote some study about how a group of people were unintelligent?

Huh? What study?

And besides that, intelligence is something measurable. "Idiot" is just a statement of opinion.

This thing is also guilty of hasty generalization. Just because some males died in silly ways that doesn't mean every male or even most males die that way.