Last weekend’s Florida hurricane, prompts the question …
Answer: Based on popular usage, it is 30.812 times more common for Hermine to be a girl’s name than a boy’s name. Source
What’s the ‘so what’?
Well, some names are deadlier than others.
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?
No, it’s not gender bias … it’s a cognitive bias induced by “Incidental stimuli”.
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