{"id":3678,"date":"2014-12-13T12:33:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T17:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2014-12-13T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T17:33:05","slug":"battle-of-the-brains-men-v-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/battle-of-the-brains-men-v-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the brains: Men v. Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3680\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/477px-Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3680\" class=\"wp-image-3680 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/477px-Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Darwin Awards, named after Charles Darwin, recognize individuals who have positively contributed to human evolution by accidentally removing themselves from the process of natural selection through their own actions. (Photo credit:  Julia Margaret Cameron, via Wikimedia Commons).\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/477px-Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2-238x300.jpg 238w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/477px-Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Darwin Awards, named after Charles Darwin, recognize individuals who have positively contributed to human evolution by accidentally removing themselves from the process of natural selection through their own actions. (Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2.jpg\"> Julia Margaret Cameron, via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A group of scientists have reviewed the data and the answer is in, men are more likely to be more idiotic than women.<\/p>\n<p>The authors reviewed 20 years of the Darwin Awards \u2013 which tell the ridiculous stories of how people accidentally kill themselves &#8211; and found that men made up 88.7 per cent of the winners. However the authors do remind readers that it is possible women nominate others more than men do, causing the gender imbalance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/349\/bmj.g7094\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>British Medical Journal &#8211; Christmas issue\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>December 11<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span class=\"name\">Ben Alexander Daniel Lendrem,\u00a0The King Edward VI School, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span class=\"name\">Dennis William Lendrem<\/span><span class=\"contrib-role\">,\u00a0Newcastle University, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span class=\"name\">Andy Gray,\u00a0Royal Victoria Infirmary, United Kindom<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span class=\"name\">John Dudley Isaacs<\/span><span class=\"contrib-role\">,\u00a0Newcastle University, United Kingdom<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of scientists have reviewed the data and the answer is in, men are more likely to be more idiotic than women. The authors reviewed 20 years of the Darwin Awards \u2013 which tell the ridiculous stories of how people accidentally kill themselves &#8211; and found that men made up 88.7 per cent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3680,"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":[26],"tags":[917,1647],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-evolution","tag-human-behaviour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/477px-Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron_2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Xk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","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=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3681,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions\/3681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}