They did a study.  Seriously, they did.  And discovered the astounding and shocking fact that:

Macho Guys More Likely to Get Killed

People do stupid things all the time and they do them in all geographic regions, but as any regular viewer of Comedy Central’s “Tosh 2.0” can tell you, there does seem to be an uncanny correlation between certain regions of the country and the kind of risk-taking behavior that could get you seriously hurt or even killed.

That’s the premise of a new study out today in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science. The three authors, all from the University of Oklahoma, found that states with a “culture of honor” –- in the South, and the West, mainly — also have higher rates of accidental death for white males: 42 per 100,000 compared to 36.8 per 100,000 in non “honor” states.

As someone from the “Hold my beer and watch this, Bubba” State, I can testify that more men have been killed in tractor pulls than in yacht racing.

And if you really want to waste some research dollars, study the correlation between IQ and doing stoopid stuff.  I have noticed that they are sometimes related.