Re: Unique study saying people find hurricanes with female names less threatening
Posted by Chris in Tampa on 6/5/2014, 3:37 pm
I see they answer the early on question here:

http://publish.illinois.edu/shavitt/files/2013/07/PNAS-Reply.pdf

Although their answer is not that satisfying. I think that should have been made more clear.

They do say it is still the case from 1979, but to a lesser extent. Katrina and Audrey are not included. You can view some supporting information here:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/05/29/1402786111.abstract?tab=ds

It has some of the experiment with asking people various scenarios and just changing the name. The other file is the raw figures they used.

I just found a copy of the study:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lp2hbmdqvssy95j/PNAS-2014-Jung-1402786111.pdf
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Unique study saying people find hurricanes with female names less threatening - Chris in Tampa, 6/3/2014, 2:35 am
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