Males trump females in ‘idiotic’ deaths

It’s official then. Not only is the female of the species more deadly than the male, but they are also smarter.

A lot smarter. A study of the Darwin Awards — the annual review of the most stupid and idiotic ways people have died — revealed that 90% of the winners were male.

The only criteria for being the unlucky soul to receive a Darwin Award is that you managed to die in “an extraordinarily idiotic manner”, thereby protecting the human gene pool and improving the chances that us humans stay around for a long time to come.