Archive for May 31st, 2016

Name game: Some names are deadlier than others

May 31, 2016

Female-named hurricanes cause “significantly more deaths”

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Researchers analyzed over six decades of death rates from U.S. hurricanes and concluded that a severe hurricane with a female name is likely to have a death toll triple that of an equally severe hurricane with a male name.

Say, what?

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No, it’s not gender bias … it’s a cognitive bias induced by “Incidental stimuli”.

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