A study into the Darwin Awards, the award body who document people who have improved the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a stupid manner, has concluded that men make up 90 per cent of the ‘winners’.In this case, the ‘winners’ are always corpses.
The tongue-in-cheek research conducted by Newcastle University suggested MIT, or ‘male idiot theory’ (the theory that ‘men are idiots, and idiots do stupid things’) was to blame for the unequal findings.
In the 332 cases analysed since 1995, 282 involved men dying easily avoidable deaths, whereas only 36 women died in doing stupid things (14 cases involved both men and women and were therefore discounted).However, could this just be because men have a more adventurous spirit?
Writing in the Christmas edition of the British medical journal the researchers said men often succumb to unfortunate ends in pursuit of ‘bragging rights’.
One of the most famous recipients of the award was a man who tried to use a chainsaw and a grenade to make his own fireworks – he would have definitely have had some ‘bragging rights’ had he survived.
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