Somehow I ended up clicking on an MSN article about 10 Embarrassingly Obvious Health Studies. There are a few studies related to finance and I’m a bit amazed that money was spent to find out these things.
Cigarettes & Money - Quitting smoking will increase your wealth.
Poor Kids & Doctor Visits - Poor kids visit the doctor less.
Why would they study these obvious things?
So while the end result might be a laughably obvious study, [Marc] Abrahams [editor of the Annals of Improbable Research] says, “Some people end up studying those obvious things [to get funding], and use part of that money to study something important really quietly.â€
[Via msn.com]
I wonder what sort of quiet studying they are doing while proving that beer goggles exist (yes, that’s a study they mention in the article)? LOL.
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Posted: October 9th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
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Posted: October 9th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
There is grant money and apparently some of it is available for silly stuff - if you don’t apply, you don’t get, so somebody applied and got.
There is often an ulterior motive in spending money to obtain documented evidence of something which might seem obvious. Like if someone is lobbying to expand the SCHIP program, it can’t hurt to pad your case with data.
Posted: October 9th, 2007 at 8:09 pm
My mom once read about an experiment involving lobsters and treadmills (underwater ones!). But I was a kid and don’t remember the details.
Posted: October 10th, 2007 at 10:39 am
I agree with Minimum Wage. I also think that it’s not necessarily intuitive — I haven’t seen the study, but the poorest kids should be eligible to receive help from the state, so it could also be possible that they would be visiting the doctor more frequently than the kids of middle class families whose parents cannot afford health care and do not receive health care fromtheir employers. If kids who are eligible for aid are nevertheless visiting the doctor less frequently, perhaps this is a sign that parents are not making informed choices, and that the government should beef up programs that make parents aware of the benefits for which they are eligible.
Alternatively, perhaps it signals that we should provide parents time off/transportation to take their kids tothe doctor.
Posted: October 10th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
They forgot to mention global warming.
Posted: October 10th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
i don`t need any studie to know this two facts.
Posted: October 10th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Isn’t it something?! The wasting of money that goes on to tell us things that are common sense.
Posted: October 10th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Jim - you beat me to it.
There is a causal relationship between Global Warming and funding for Global Warming research.