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Today you learn about whether hurricanes with female names are deadlier than those with male names.

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see the same things in constellations,

and animals besides lab rats that are essential to science.

What satisfy some essential curiosity?

Let's just get this straight.

Hurricanes with female names are not deadlier than those with male names.

This flies in the face of a study that went viral in 2014,

which concluded that female named hurricanes killed more people than those with male names.

The study said people didn't take those storms as seriously,

and that hurricane names lead to gender-based expectations about how severe or dangerous they might be,

which in turn meant that people might prepare less thoroughly for hurricanes named Sandy than one's named Dorian.

The researchers said Dorian sounds stronger thanks to gender bias.

And that study was an instant sensation.

But it turns out that the research methods were questionable at best.

In the study, scientists used data from hurricanes that have struck since the United States

started naming storms in 1950, so far so good. They had independent coders rank the names from very masculine to very

feminine and very man-like to very woman-like, then analyze the damage and deaths caused by

each hurricane.

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