All men – idiots – BBC

Theory of male idiocy that we should listen to the surgeon during the operation and which disappear from the doctor’s waiting room magazines – such topics have been the subject of studies of British doctors, who once a year, before Christmas, allow themselves to joke.

On the eve of the Catholic Christmas British journal British Medical Journal published a series of traditionally polushutochnyh-half serious research, which could be called a medical analogue Ig Nobel Prize to the British way. In the current series to highlight the work team from Newcastle and Morpeth, developed the theory of male idiocy and have found confirmation of this theory in the analysis of the infamous Darwin Award winners.

This award is known to be awarded annually to people who because of their idiotic behavior risked and lost their lives or some other way to get rid of the gene pool of their genes, so that humanity, in full accordance with the theory Darwin gets more chances to further progressive development.

List of Darwin awards demonstrates that human stupidity is diverse and primitive at the same time. Man is able to accidentally take a sip of gasoline, and then smoke to relieve the burning sensation in the throat. The thief is able, running away from the police, jump over the fence, which was a prison. Hunter is able to try to cut the metal wire, which is under a voltage of several thousand volts, or cut off a metal cable elevator lift, in which he is at the height of the fourth floor. And so on.

On the assumption that the risk to go to stupid men are capable of more than women, the researchers conducted a gender analysis of the list of winners of the Darwin Award for the period 1995-2014, the g.

Of the 332 winners of the award are excluded 14 cases involving men and women (usually found to idiocy when incriminating circumstances) and focused on the remaining 318 cases. It was found in this case, more than 20 years of premium women received it only 36 times, and thus, due to its fatal idiocy, the men became a laughingstock in the Darwinian 88.7% of cases.

The authors note high statistical significance of the results, which clearly support the hypothesis that men – idiots, capable of idiotic behavior.

At the same time, being without exception men, they stipulated that their research has “some limitations».

First, they argue, was nominated for the award Darwin men are more inclined to just women, for whom the statement “all men – idiots” (different variants of this statement ) needs no proof. Secondly, on the stupid, and the fatal behavior laureates Darwin quite often subjected them drunk alcohol, so truly in their analysis should be adjusted for gender differences in addiction to alcohol.

This is, for example, taken at random winner of the award-1999 – 25-year-old soldier who was in the party with his colleagues, to organize a competition for spitting distance from the balcony, determined to win, adding his saliva extra push.

To do this, he ran up and spitting when an abrupt halt by the railings. The result was unknown because the soldiers could not resist, rolled over the railing and fell from the third floor to his death.

But even with these limitations, male supremacy idiocy remains a mystery to the study’s authors. The answer, they suggest, may lie in an effort to confirm the validity of their male self-esteem, or simply show off.

The authors intend to continue to study and assess the impact on the risk behavior of different doses of alcohol, conducted a series of experimental parties with mixed gender participation.

The rest of the Christmas fun BMJ also quite curious. In one article, the authors investigated the listening habits of surgeons and compiled a list of songs that they often prefer to listen and discarded. Music, the authors say, soothes, improves communication capabilities and at the same time capable – at least in principle! – Hone skills at the Slasher of our bodies. In a list of recommended songs, in particular, included such hits as «Stayin ‘Alive» group Bee Gees and «Comfortably Numb» performed by the group Pink Floyd, and songs such as «Another One Bites the Dust» (Queen) and «Scar Tissue »(Red Hot Chilli Peppers) were absolutely contraindicated for surgeons because they de, in particular, can lead to problems with anesthesia.

In any case, the authors strongly recommend surgeons cut people to the music.

We also found by scientists from New Zealand the answer to the burning puzzle – why in rooms where patients expect to see a doctor, you can find only read old magazines? The answer is simple: fresh magazines, it turns out, they steal! It was established during the experiment in which researchers have spread out on the tables waiting rooms 87 copies of magazines of varying degrees of freshness, serious and frivolous, and a month later to check availability. It turned out that almost all the “yellow” press – and fresh, and half a year ago – with tables disappeared, vanished as many fresh magazines serious content.

The exception was Time magazine and the Economist – all their copies were intact.

These magazines researchers and medical practitioners recommend to spread on tables in front of his door – then the patients finally will be able to read while waiting for the doctor daily newspapers.