{"id":1795,"date":"2014-06-02T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2014-06-02T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:33:48","slug":"a-hurricane-by-any-other-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/a-hurricane-by-any-other-name\/","title":{"rendered":"A hurricane by any other name&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Severe hurricanes with feminine-sounding names killed more Americans than similarly severe hurricanes with male names, a new study shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The authors reached this conclusion after asking independent volunteers to rate the masculinity (e.g. Ivan) or femininity (e.g. Cindy) of 94 hurricanes that made landfall in the US between 1950 and 2012 and matching this with other data, including severity and the number of fatalities. In a set of related experiments, they found that people predicted that female-named hurricanes would be less intense and risky than male-names ones, and as a result they would be less willing to follow evacuation orders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This study highlights how gender bias impacts the way people respond to weather systems, with potentially deadly consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/05\/29\/1402786111.abstract?sid=b522d1c9-88be-4647-bfc4-adfe73555cc3\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0published in the the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 2, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/business.illinois.edu\/facultyprofile\/faculty_profile.aspx?ID=127\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Shavitt<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severe hurricanes with feminine-sounding names killed more Americans than similarly severe hurricanes with male names, a new study shows. The authors reached this conclusion after asking independent volunteers to rate the masculinity (e.g. Ivan) or femininity (e.g. Cindy) of 94 hurricanes that made landfall in the US between 1950 and 2012 and matching this with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215,1687,1688,176],"class_list":["post-1795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment","tag-gender","tag-gender-bias","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-sX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1796,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}