男人确实比女性更蠢
It's a theory that many women have held for years.
“男人是蠢货”，这是女人的眼中的真理。
And now a study has revealed men really are the more stupid sex.
Analysis of the Darwin Awards - an annual review of the most foolish ways people have died - has found almost 90 percent of the accolades were 'won' by males.
Worthy candidates include a terrorist who opened his own letter bomb, and a man who attempted to travel by hitching a shopping trolley to a train.
It is named after Charles Darwin, the scientist famous for the theory of evolution.
Nominees have to improve the gene pool by eliminating themselves from the human race using foolish methods.
Examples include the man who shot himself in the head with a 'spy pen' weapon to show his friend it was real, and the thief attempting to purloin a steel cable from a lift shaft - and unbolted it while standing in the lift which then plummeted to the ground, killing him.
Of 332 independently verified nominations, 14 were ruled out of the analysis because they were shared by male and females - usually adventurous couples in compromising positions.
Of the 318 valid cases remaining, 282 (88.7 percent) were awarded to males and just 36 to females, a gender difference entirely consistent with male idiot theory (MIT) that states men are idiots and idiots do stupid things.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, the researchers said it is puzzling men are willing to take such unnecessary risks - simply as a rite of passage, in pursuit of male social esteem or solely in exchange for 'bragging rights'.
Dr Dennis Lendrem, of theUniversityofNewcastle, said: 'Idiotic risks are defined as senseless risks, where the apparent payoff is negligible or non existent, and the outcome is often extremely negative and often final.
'According to 'male idiot theory' (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behavior, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things.
'There are anecdotal data supporting MIT, but to date there has been no systematic analysis of sex differences in idiotic risk taking behavior.'