Post by Jaga on Jun 2, 2014 19:48:01 GMT -7
Do you remember Katrina??? Poeple are less afraid of feminine-sounded hurricanes 
Sexism may be getting in the way of hurricane safety..
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign looked at 90 years of hurricane fatality data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found that powerful hurricanes with female names were more deadly than hurricanes of the same strength with male names.
The reason, they say, is tied up with a lingering and subconscious sexism that continues to permeate our society.
“It now appears that gender biases apply not only to people, but also to things.”
- Sharon Shavitt, behavioral scientist at the Univeristy of Illinois
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"The femininity of the name influences the degree to which people feel the storm is dangerous, and that effects how they respond to it," said Sharon Shavitt, a behavioral scientist at the university and a coauthor of the paper. "We had a hunch that there would be some gender biases, but we were quite stunned by the degree of this effect."
www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-deadliest-hurricanes-have-female-names-study-20140602-story.html
Sexism may be getting in the way of hurricane safety..
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign looked at 90 years of hurricane fatality data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found that powerful hurricanes with female names were more deadly than hurricanes of the same strength with male names.
The reason, they say, is tied up with a lingering and subconscious sexism that continues to permeate our society.
“It now appears that gender biases apply not only to people, but also to things.”
- Sharon Shavitt, behavioral scientist at the Univeristy of Illinois
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"The femininity of the name influences the degree to which people feel the storm is dangerous, and that effects how they respond to it," said Sharon Shavitt, a behavioral scientist at the university and a coauthor of the paper. "We had a hunch that there would be some gender biases, but we were quite stunned by the degree of this effect."
www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-deadliest-hurricanes-have-female-names-study-20140602-story.html