{"id":207684,"date":"2014-06-05T23:27:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T23:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/05\/lacigreen-skunkbear-it-seems-like-the-title\/"},"modified":"2018-09-19T02:46:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T02:46:51","slug":"lacigreen-skunkbear-it-seems-like-the-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/05\/lacigreen-skunkbear-it-seems-like-the-title\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-207684 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/05\/lacigreen-skunkbear-it-seems-like-the-title\/attachment\/207685\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo2_640-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo2_640-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo2_640-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo2_640-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo2_640.png 640w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/05\/lacigreen-skunkbear-it-seems-like-the-title\/attachment\/207686\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tumblr_n6k9lkjmkp1t5fphqo1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lacigreen.tumblr.com\/post\/87829441330\/skunkbear-it-seems-like-the-title-of-an-onion\" target=\"_blank\">lacigreen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/skunkbear.tumblr.com\/post\/87631452944\/it-seems-like-the-title-of-an-onion-article-but\" target=\"_blank\">skunkbear<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It seems like the title of an onion article, but it\u2019s actually very serious. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/05\/29\/1402786111.abstract?sid=79a9dd5a-51c7-4dfe-95b0-25c41fec04e9\" target=\"_blank\">A study published today i<\/a><u>n the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/u>\u00a0found that hurricanes with feminine names killed significantly more people than hurricanes with masculine names.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The authors looked at several decades of hurricane deaths (excluding extreme outliers like Katrina and Audrey) and posed a question:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Do people judge hurricane risks in the context of gender-based expectations?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0According to their study, the answer is a big <strong>yes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Laboratory experiments indicate that this is because hurricane names lead to gender-based expectations about severity and this, in turn, guides respondents\u2019 preparedness to take protective action.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In other words, because of some deep-seated perceptions of gender, <strong>people are less afraid of hurricanes with feminine names<\/strong>. And that means they are less likely to evacuate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>damn. \u00a0looks like mother nature is coming for your sexist ass.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lacigreen: skunkbear: It seems like the title of an onion article, but it\u2019s actually very serious. A study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences\u00a0found that hurricanes with feminine names killed significantly more people than hurricanes with masculine names.\u00a0 The authors looked at several decades of hurricane deaths (excluding extreme outliers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/06\/05\/lacigreen-skunkbear-it-seems-like-the-title\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[21908,10375,185,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207687,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207684\/revisions\/207687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}