New research is now showing that hurricanes given a female name tend to kill considerably more people than hurricanes given male names. One suggested explanation is that people tend to underestimate a hurricane with a female name and fail to take strong precautions. So I say: name every hurricane ATTILA THE HUN! ---- Mahzarin Banaji, Robert Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Psychology Department of Harvard University
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:15:50 +0000
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