Hurricanes with Female Names are Killers

When it comes to hurricanes, apparently people don't take the ones with female names seriously. That's causing deadly consequences. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says the results imply an “implicit sexism”; that is, we make decisions about storms based on the gender of their name without even knowing it.

(Source: The Washington Post)

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