Another triumph for science. This news just in: studies show that early risers crash faster than people who stay up late. No shit.
We already knew that buttered toast really does mostly fall messy-side down, and having MS impacts your job prospects as well as your health. But I have other urgent questions that need answers. We need funding for a study that proves I get cold when the temperature goes down. Or that people get fat when they overeat. (Oh, wait, there are thousands of teams already working on that one--working to find complicated ways around it by making the food not really food, or manufacturing drugs that tinker with metabolism.)
Tuh.
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What I .really. want is proof that drinking water every day keeps one hydrated. The jury's been out far too long on that one.
ReplyDeleteWow. How do these people get funding for this crap?
Odds are there's industry support for this study so they can quantify productivity variables with a view toward "increasing efficiency."
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't call an experiment with 31 participants in any way a "scientific study".
ReplyDeleteThis isn't that obvious, is it? The study didn't indicate the early risers crashed earlier in the day, but that they crashed sooner after their normal rising time. That is, they don't stay alert as long, not that they don't stay alert as late.
ReplyDeletejames, yes, the original title was better: Early Risers Crash Faster.
ReplyDeletelynne, I've no argument with it being 'scientific' but the small sample size makes me sceptical of its universal applicability.
It's amazing the things that get money spent on them to study...I wonder if there's an ongoing research project about the economic cost of ignoring common sense and the evidence of your own eyes.
ReplyDeleteOh, Nicola, you're so anti-science! That's why there's so much hostility to reason in America today. As Edward O. Wilson said, "Multiculturalism equals relativism equals no supercollider equals communism!"
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promiscuous, I just don't see why we're wasting our money on the supercollider when we could be giving it to health insurance companies instead...
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