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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."
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He laughed at me when I said my ultimate technique was the Long Winded Anecdote With No Point (Napping Crane Style). But now I'm 37% more likely to have the last laugh!
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This explains the corpse in the back of that lecture hall in the math building.
As study is underway to see if you really can "Freeze your ass off".
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.
If it's any consolation, I much prefer the bored version of the German military.
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain