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Comment author: waveman 25 May 2013 02:53:21AM 0 points [-]

Note that this study deliberately excluded shipwrecks where it was known women had survived at higher rates.

My reading of the evidence is that, where time exists for an orderly exit, women did better. In exigent circumstances, where it was everyone for themselves, men fared better because they are stronger, better swimmers, etc.

It is interesting that on the Titanic, women survived at much higher rates than children.