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Turns Out You Actually Can Be Bored To Death
A study conducted by researchers at University College London shows that boredom can kill you. The researchers found that people who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study. Martin Shipley, who co-wrote the report said, "The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom."
maybe because by doing nothing and being bored, you are likely to not be as healthy...
It's in TFA.
"The researchers found that people who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study."
How long did this study take?!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
The participants who reported high levels of boredom were significantly more likely to have died than the participants, in the same age group, who didn't.
[sigh] TentireFA is about ten lines long; it doesn't give much information, but it's enough to get that much. Actually, even an intelligent reading of the summary would have given you that little bit of information. Probably too much to ask here, I know.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
You are inferring something that is not stated in the article.
"I'd hate to die twice, it's so boring."
Feynman
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