The idea that female named hurricanes are more lethal is based on incredibly poor research.http://www.pnas.org/content/111/34/E3496 …
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The scientific community has heavily criticized the methods (e.g. the authors sincluded data pre 1978 when hurricanes didn’t have male names). The WaPo article is picking up criticisms across the board the scientific community. The original paper has poorly conducted analyses.
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This article by Andrew Gelman, statistician at Columbia, tries to explain in non-technical terms some of the shortcomings of the original Jung study:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/06/05/hurricanes-vs-himmicanes/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.11f21d18879a …
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Yeah, I should have remembered that. Thanks.
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