Your tax dollars are being well-spent. A recent study related hurricane fatalities to the name of the storm. Yes, they think the name of the storm is an indicator of how many people will die.
The authors of this important study (I'm being facetious here in case you didn't catch it) examined 1000 people in six different tests. They determined that they were "generally" more likely to evacuate from an oncoming storm with a masculine name than from a storm with a feminine one.
I don't know for sure what this says. I guess it's either that people are even more stupid than I thought, or that researchers are grasping at straws to get those grant dollars and we are stupidly giving them to them.
"Woman, they name is deadly." The Dallas Morning News; June 3, 2014; p. 4A.
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