Researchers find that "good manners" doomed British males on Titanic.
We’ve all heard the sexist brainwashing: "women and children first." Now, a study finds that such misandry not only costs men their lives, it also doesn't do a whole lot to save children either.
"After examining the economic and social backgrounds of the 2,200 passengers and crew onboard the fated ocean liner, University of Zurich economist Bruno Frey and colleagues from Queensland University of Technology found that the Britons on board were 10 percent less likely to have survived than all other nationalities."
Reports Swiss news agency ATS.
"The researchers suggested that good manners, or 'noblesse oblige', might have had something to do with that in the rush for the lifeboats, the Swiss news agency ATS reported.
Their as yet unpublished study concluded that social norms such as ‘women and children first’ do survive in the kind of situation found on board the British liner for nearly three hours after it hit an iceberg."
Amazingly, the study finds that "women and children first" was more like "women first."
"The study also found that women of reproductive age were better off, while women, as a whole, had a 53 percent better chance of survival. But children were only 15 percent more likely to have survived than adults."
Also of interest, the study found that Americans had a higher survival rate than all others.