Darwin Awards

[ny_quant]

Using 20 years of Darwin data, the researchers found that men accounted for 282 of the 318 confirmed Darwin events, or more than 88 percent.

The finding “supports the hypothesis that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things,” the study says.

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[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Encyclopedia Britannica gives the following definition:

"scientific hypothesis, an idea that proposes a tentative explanation about a phenomenon or a narrow set of phenomena observed in the natural world. The two primary features of a scientific hypothesis are falsifiability and testability, which are reflected in an “If...then” statement summarizing the idea and in the ability to be supported or refuted through observation and experimentation"

It is true that your claim is falsifiable, however it does not refer to a "a phenomenon or a narrow set of phenomena", but rather an very wide set of disparate phenomena, and does not provide any explanation or connection between these phenomena.

[spamsink]

I'd say that the difference in trait deviation in human males vs females is a very narrow set of natural phenomena. You're right, a tentative explanation is missing. One could be a moderating effect of two X chromosomes in females vs one in males: the deviation of the half-sum of two random variables with identical properties is less than their deviation in isolation.