It's Official: Men Are Idiots Who Do Stupid Things, Says Study

NEW YORK:  Men are more likely than women to engage in risky behaviour that is extremely "idiotic," according to a new study.

Researchers in the study reviewed the data on winners of the Darwin Award and found that the majority of the receivers of a Darwin Award are men.

To win a Darwin Award a person must die in "an extraordinarily idiotic manner," and thereby protect the human gene pool and improve the species' chances of long-term survival, 'LiveScience' reported.

In a special Christmas issue of the journal BMJ, researchers in the UK used the Darwin Award database to examine an idea they call "male idiot theory," to see whether men's generally higher inclination for risk-taking extends to taking "idiotic risks."

The study defined idiotic risks as senseless risks, where the apparent payoff is negligible or non-existent, and the outcome is often extremely negative and often final.

The researchers reviewed the stories of all nominees for the Darwin Award from 1995 to 2014, noting the gender of the winner.

To win a Darwin Award, the story of how the death happened must be verifiable, and the person must have been capable of sound judgment, while showing "an astonishing misapplication of common sense."

For example, one person in the study was a "terrorist who posted a letter bomb with insufficient postage stamps and who, on its return, unthinkingly opened his own letter," the researchers wrote.

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