7.116 Gender-based expectations?

A summary of U.S. hurricanes over the last six decades show that feminine-named hurricanes have resulted in significantly more deaths than masculine-named hurricanes.⁴⁰ Why is this? One group of researchers propose this is due to gender-based expectations of severity, which in turn leads to unpreparedness and lack of protective action. To demonstrate this, the researchers used five male and five females hurricane names and asked 346 participants to predict each hurricane’s intensity and strength on a 7-point scale. The data file NAMES contains the average rankings of severity for 50 participants. Is there evidence that there is a gender-based difference in severity? Write a report summarizing your work.