Why is it that men are four times more likely to be hit by a lightning than women?
82003
Men are far more likely to work outside than women, and spend more of their free time in the out of doors as well.  So, as far as working outdoors goes, yes I guess it is because men are dumb.  We are dumb because we continue to sacrifice our health and safety in the workplace in far greater numbers than women (95% of those killed on the job in the US are men) and yet are rewarded for that sacrifice with ignorant male bashing comments such as the ones seen right here in the responses to this question.  If such comments were made about any other group in society, women, racial minorities, whatever, everyone would be outraged.  But people feel free to bash men to their heart's content.
690824
There are many reasons for this, many of them formed by the gender roles imposed by society:\n\no Males of most every species are more aggressive\no Men physically stronger, and thus are better at committing crimes relying on strength\no Men are more likely to engage in activities (contact sports, martial arts, hunting) and use tools (guns, knives, baseball bats) that provide skills useful to criminals\no Men are more often in positions of power, and have more opportunities to commit crimes\no Men are more often expected to be providers, and thus more likely to turn to crime to fulfill that role\no Men are more competitive, and more likely to turn to crime to get an edge\no Men are expected to be sexually assertive, women passive.  The assertive role offers more opportunity for crime\no Males of many species attract mates by demonstrating there prowess, often in reckless and violent ways\no Male sexual deviancy is more likely to lead to crime than female sexual deviancy.\no More male role models, both real and fictional, are criminals\n\nNote, these aren't excuses or justifications for criminal activity, nor are they an endorsement for sexism or gender stereotypes.  They are merely observations.
356708
It's because moreso men think about that stuff than women.
108122
http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning.htm
936252
I have heard that before too, but as a meteorologist...I can say I have never found any scientific basis for that theory.\n\nHowever, I was working for the National Weather Service about 20 years ago when I got struck.  After I returned to work, all the staff gave me a hard time about that fact that now that I had been struck once, I was more likely to be struck again.\n\nAfter my stint with NWS, I was a storm chaser for 10 years, and in those 10 years I never even came close.  In fact, in the last 20 years I have come close only once...and that was because I was stupid enough to be standing next to an outside light fixture as a thunderstorm was moving through.
121235
You're just on a male bashing binge tonight, huh?\n\n  But I agree - it takes two to tango.  Prevention is as much the responsibility of the man as it is the woman.
368105
There are four ways a person can get injured from lightning: a direct strike, "splashes" (when the lightning bounces off something and strikes you), ground strikes (when lightning strikes the ground and then you conduct the electricity), and EMP waves (i don't know what this is). You have a 1 in 3000 chance of being hurt by lightning, and a surge protector lowers that odds even more. So according to the fact that chances are pretty low, I'd say it's safe to stay on the computer.
447253
it happens more frequently then you think. lightening often strikes the same place
1071484
280,000,000 to one\nACCORDING TO 'STORM DATA'... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PUBLICATION... AN AVERAGE OF 87 LIGHTNING FATALITIES OCCURRED PER YEAR FROM 1959-1995. DUE TO UNDERREPORTING... THE FIGURES ARE MORE REALISTICALLY ABOUT 100-120 DEATHS PER YEAR. ONLY ABOUT 10% OF PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUCK ARE KILLED... LEAVING 90% WITH VARIOUS DEGREES OF DISABILITY.\nMy husband was struck in Nevada several years ago and only sustained burns.
135608
Because women are just now (in the last 50 years) starting to aquire stable jobs in the buisness world. Men however, have reached their peak in the buisness world and have their wives to earn a considerable amount of the family income. Therefore, men are able to take more financial risks.
176642
about the same as getting struck by lightning twice during the same storm.
1111845
The statement has little to actually do with lightning, especially these days.  It really applies to human nature and events.\n\nBefore the advent of tall buildings and lightning rods, it was rare for lightning to strike the same location twice; there were many likely targets.  While it could happen, it was outside the daily experience of most people, and back then, that's about all they had to work with.  \n\nThe statement came to mean any event that rarely happened twice to the same person or group; like a previous poster said, winning the lottery twice, or any other event that's rare enough the first time, and extremely unlikely the second.
123343
It is not true that women go through more health problems than men do. The truth is that they are more sensible in some sectors and less in other.\nTake as an example heart diseases. \nThe incidence of heart diseases is less frequent in women than in men, because they have the estrogens (a kind of hormones)that are protecting them.\nAnother example could be smoking and lung diseases.\nWomen are more vulnerable at this point, because of their anatomic caracteristics : their lungs are smaller, so the same amount of smoke inhaled by a man or by a woman, will be more harmful for a woman.\nAnd so on.\nThe only difference is that they are more sensible, so the way that they perceive things can make them more vulnerable and this could influence potentially their health status.\nSo, use YAHOO! Q&A as I do! It is relaxing and instructive.\n\nKaterina
893742
There are more living women but more babies are born male. Nature's way to keep the balance. Men tend to die young.. from stupid stunts and war.
403893
Men have orgasms easier, so I'd guess its men.
181968
they have more muscles than a women phisically, but mentally sometimes, not always, women can be stronger.  No offense in tended at all!
672978
It's a design feature, but it's not like one of the Laws of Physics. It's just a tendency, like men being taller than women *on average*. Men are more likely not to see an inherent conflict in loving more than one woman at the same time.\n\nI think that trying to second guess or mind-read the opposite gender is a losing game. Just accept that men and women are different and leave it at that.\n\n(BTW, it didn't even occur to me that you might be talking about a 3-some until I started reading the other answers after I posted mine. I was talking about actual love and not sex.)