Female hurricanes

and human biases...

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I read a few days ago that for a given similar category level of hurricanes people prepared more seriously for male-named hurricanes than ones named after women. To utterly devastating consequences…

Need we say more about human biases and embedded deep assumptions?

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Musings #761 over 1323 days - Thursday, 5 September 2024, daily writing rate of about 57%

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_cyclone_naming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffir%E2%80%93Simpson_scale