Being the Ugly American Does Have Advantages

According to a recently completed study, American passengers of The Titanic had a 12% higher probability of survival than the British passengers. This is odd, since the ship was a British ship with all British crew. You would think that the Brits would favor their own as far as allocating lifeboat space.

But the recently completed study found that the difference was due to the fact that while British passengers were more likely to politely get in line and wait for their turn to get in the lifeboats, American passengers were more likely to push ahead and cut in line.

The article about the study can be found here.