Scientific research doesn’t always require creative experiments, a high tech laboratory and exotic chemicals. Sometimes it’s as simple as taking a survey or correlating the information that is readily available and staring us right in the face.
It’s O.K. to love both
Do black men have larger penises than white men? Yes, in fact, they do. There are, of course, well-endowed white men and short peckered negroes, but on average the males of the melanin enhanced community do have the advantage in that department.
I read a few of these types of reports today. It’s been an educational afternoon on the internet. First, dog people v. cat people. Are they really different? I thought “Well, duh, of course” and was quite happy to have my bias confirmed. First (and this part did surprise me a bit) there are way more dog lovers than cat lovers (about 70-30). Second, dog lovers are more extroverted. One commenter on the article, though, did point out a possible flaw in the test, a different interpretation of the data, a reversal of cause and effect. Dogs need to go for walks and they are great conversation starters, so having a dog may actually cause you to be more extroverted, if you weren’t that way to start.
Then there was a survey that sort of answered the question “If homosexuality is genetic, and homosexual sex does not lead to babies, how is it that there are new homosexuals every generation.” Turns out that the mothers of homosexuals, and the aunts on the mother’s side, have a higher than average number of children. So, they are like the carriers of the gene and they have more kids just to compensate for the fact that some of them won’t reproduce.
I’m not sure of the interpretation of the data on that one, actually. I think it might call for some fancy laboratory gene mapping and such, or it could be an argument for nurture over nature as well, although I can’t really see how having a lot of siblings would turn anybody gay.
Then there was the study (this was not all that new, I saw it several months ago, but I did read it again this afternoon) that stupid people tend to be conservative and vice versa. Like the dick example in the 2nd paragraph, I’m sure there are exceptions, but the sampling method was pretty hard to argue with. They just looked at a whole bunch of I.Q. tests from elementary school, and checked on who had grown up to be conservatives and how many liberals.
I think it’s pretty obvious. They can’t spell. (Just look at their signs.) They think trickle down economics will work, despite the fact that it never, in all of human history, has. They deny science. They think in slogans.
I suspect that research by survey will become even more common in the future because, whatever you think of social media, it is building a huge database. Do people who remove the olives from their greek salad have a higher divorce rate? Who are better drivers, men or women? Do people who hang the toilet roll with the dangly bit in back make better business decisions? Someday, these questions will have answers.
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