The Timing of Death: Holidays and Gender

[differenceblog]

Many studies have examined whether the timing of death is, to some extent, under executive control. Skala and Freedland (2004) provide a review of some of these. Not included in this review is Anson and Anson (1997), who examined mortality patterns in Muslim communities in relationship to holidays. They suggest that observed differences in

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[astrogeek01]

notes that men tend to prefer buying gifts that are practical, while women prefer buying sentimental gifts.

Now, do women prefer to receive sentimental gifts, and men prefer practical? That would seem to be the case if you just look at advertising but I'd be curious about actual data.

[differenceblog]

Lacher et al didn't seem to address this.

[dabunny]

I still wish I could find mortality data for the Boston area around the time of the Red Sox World Series Win. I have the sneaking suspicion that there were an awful lot of folks hanging in for one more year there too...