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A fair and balanced compendium of spontaneous exclamations and excited utterances, with 22 entries on the front page. And, now, Home of the YATSASS™ Reports Yet Another True Story About Stupid Studies: • Breathing Bus Exhaust is Stressful • Depressed People May Take Drugs To Feel Better • Smart healthy people choose foods more wisely than stupid drunks • Stressed Out Moms Think Their Babies Are Annoying • People Are Groggy When They Wake Up • Airport Screeners Probably Can't Stop Spread of SARS & Flu • Study on Studies Yields Disappointment! • Lengthy Study with No Findings! A perfect YATSASS! • Making Fun Of Fat Kids Depresses Them • Drinking Highly Sugared Beverages Can Make You Fat! • Americans Prefer Safe & Effective Drugs to Unproven and Dangerous Ones • Study Shows Poor & Homeless Drink More Malt Liquor • Study on People in Studies Yields Predictable Answers, But Also Raises New Questions • Women Don't Like Getting Up to Feed the Newborn While Their Husbands Sleep Like Babies • Sperm Levels Drop With Frequent Ejaculation • People Who Don't Screw Around Get Less Clap • Swimming Can Cause Fluid Build-Up in Lungs • People Who Eat A Proper Diet are Healthier and Thinner • People who don't wet their pants feel better than people who do • Maybe Left Handed Winter Babies have More Brain Cancer, Maybe Not... • People who had nose jobs and people who didn't both like the same kind of noses • People pass more gas when they are active • Kids who spend too much time reading will get headaches • People who get drunk think others are more attractive than they do when they're sober In the old days, My thoughts were more coherent, and I could string together whole sequences of actual paragraphs! Those essays can be found here for those so interested.
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005 Posted 11:32 AM
  YATSASS: Beating a Dead Horse to Make It Walk This study takes the cake, but not by getting up and walking over to the table. And the writing on that cake says We need a new category of anecdotal evidence by which we can classify and ridicule this study.Where Type A refers to plainly accurate assumptions from anecdotal evidence, and Type B evidence is clearly BS, we now need a sub-classification that describes lengthy studies which were entirely unnecessary due to the fact that they replicated and proved other lengthy studies, long since accepted without question. [Attention All Grant Writers: This is not a call for a study!]. Please read on, and we will continue or discussion forthwith:
Believe it or not, this finding [memo to Stockholm: keep your eyes on these guys] is part of a 46 year study of some people in Framingham, Massachusetts.
First off, what makes these guys think that they can apply these findings to the rest of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, let alone the nation, or the world? Well, that answer is easy, the study has been done, so many times and in so many ways, that the evidence itself has become Type A. © 2002-2008 Rob Falk, All Rights Reserved. All Wrongs Denied. Your mileage won't vary; it will be less. | Subscribe to Rants!
  
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