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."

Comments

What Scientists?

[John Hasler]

The article is about psychology.

Re:Teen Pledges Barely Cut STD Rates, Study Says

[Progman2000]

"Normal" sex education is more akin to teaching kids how to drive against traffic on the highway. If you stay on the correct side of the road to begin with you don't have such problems.

I eagerly await your response that it's "human nature" to mess around before/outside of marriage. I can then regale you with tales of idiot drivers in Haiti who "do their own thing" and "what's natural" or "fun".

Congratulation!

[Scrameustache]

the earth was round at a time when Alexandria was a place with a really cool library, and that got obscured by this religious sect that had a holy book that implied otherwise.

Um, where in the Bible does it say that the earth is flat?

You win the "Idiot Of The Day" award.