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schema:text	What was claimed Female-titled storms and hurricanes are more deadly. Our verdict This is not true. It comes from a research paper that was subsequently shown to be flawed. Female-titled storms and hurricanes are more deadly. This is not true. It comes from a research paper that was subsequently shown to be flawed. There’s a bank of fascinating psychological research to back up the fact that overall, female-titled storms and hurricanes are in fact far more deadly… That’s right: storms are sexist. Storm Eunice: 'Sexist' reason more people reportedly killed by storms named after women An article in the Independent, which has been widely shared on Twitter, and another in the Mirror, claim that storms with female names, like Storm Eunice, are deadlier than those with male ones because people don’t take them as seriously and so don’t take as many precautions to protect themselves. The article cites a research paper that was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2014. This paper studied “gender-based expectations” and concluded: “Feminine-named hurricanes (vs. masculine-named hurricanes) cause significantly more deaths, apparently because they lead to lower perceived risk and consequently less preparedness.” In fact, this research contained several flaws, which were explained by a subsequent research paper in 2016. These flaws included: When the analysis was repeated with a more representative sample of storms, the later researchers found there was no difference between the death tolls from male- or female-named ones. The authors concluded: “The assertion that female-named storms are deadlier than male-named storms is not robust, evidently because it relied on the questionable statistical analysis of a narrowly defined set of data.” Photo by Torsten Dederichs on Unsplash After we published this fact check, we contacted the Independent and the Mirror to request corrections regarding these claims. Both publications added correction notes and the Mirror also significantly changed its article. Full Fact fights for good, reliable information in the media, online, and in politics.
schema:mentions	Twitter dbpedia:Storm_Eunice Full Fact Torsten Kreuger Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
schema:reviewRating	This is not true. It comes from a research paper that was subsequently shown to be flawed.
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schema:datePublished	2022-02-18 (xsd:date)
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