Via NJ.com:
Hurricanes with female names kill more people than hurricanes with male names because people are less intimidated by the name, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Illinois and Arizona State University set up six experiments presenting a series of questions to between 100 to 346 people, The Washington Post reported.
The results of the tests found that, in one exercise, respondents who imagined a male-named hurricane predicted it to be more intense than female-named hurricanes. They also discovered in another exercise that the name of the hurricane affected the way resp...
