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Scientific Research That Could Have Been Avoided

indian_rediff writes "An article from Friday's Wall Street Journal (reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) details how some of the research being done by scientists ends up simply stating the obvious. Their observations make for some interesting and hilarious reading." From the article: "Want job satisfaction? A 'careful choice of career is the key,' researchers concluded in a paper this spring in the Journal of Economic Psychology. Choosing a career based on a well-lubricated encounter at a bar, it turns out, may not be the most promising route to career satisfaction. People who choose their jobs carefully are more likely to be satisfied with them than those who take a flying leap into the great unknown."

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  1. File that under... by shadoelord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    File that under shit I already know.

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  2. Title of the Post by Fortyseven · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The title of this article almost sounds like a Photoshop Phriday over on SA.

  3. Re:Congratulation! by Scrameustache · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Show me, instead, where the Bible implies that the earth is flat.

    In between the covers.

    Now, you see that orange dot? It means I won't be replying to your trolls anymore, so you can STFU and go annoy someone else.

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  4. But then how by mattr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    do people discover such wonderful things as the Bistromathic Drive?