a month agoThat is why hurricanes have female names
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Female - name hurricanes are more deadly than storms given to male nicknames because people take them less seriously, one study says. Studies suggest that changing the name of the storm from Charlie to Eloise could triple the number of victims. Authorities name big storms because they believe [...]
Female - name hurricanes are more deadly than storms given to male nicknames because people take them less seriously, one study says.
Studies suggest that changing the name of the storm from Charlie to Eloise could triple the number of victims.
Authorities name big storms because they believe that it helps people to remember the advice on how to protect themselves from the weather, researchers said.
But this practice also affects widely developed gender stereotypes, with potentially lethal consequences”, writes “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” in the US.
Researchers at the University of Illinois and Arizona State University analyzed more than six decades of data before reaching their conclusions.
They write: “We demonstrate that a natural disaster, just symbolically associating with a certain gender through the name, is judged in ways that match the roles and host the respective social lines of that gender.
Victims caused by hurricanes in the United States show that heavy hurricanes with female names are linked to higher numbers of the dead”.
