How to waste money on research....

Wibbs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7389980.stm

Young adults in Europe deliberately binge on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests.

Jaysus, you think? To think some bunch of propeller heads got money to do this research. What next? "research proves that 99.999999999999 people agree the sky is blue".

No doubt the next research topic will be on the effect of beer goggles .

biko

There is already a beer goggle study somewhere

here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4468884.stm

MooseJam

beer goggles are cool, if only someone could repeat the effect anytime

tribulus

MooseJam wrote: »

beer goggles are cool, if only someone could repeat the effect anytime

Just stay drunk?

Oops wasted my 2000th post on that. Aw well most of them have been utter sh1te anyway!

Wibbs

biko wrote: »

There is already a beer goggle study somewhere

here http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4468884.stm

There's even a formula. Class

Sherifu

Wibbs wrote: »

What next? "research proves that 99.999999999999 people agree the sky is blue".

That's the way it's heading, you can funding for almost anything.

Naos

I read a brief article about a study which had proved that there is more pressure on a penalty taker during a big game, such as a world cup final, than in a normal game such as a friendly...

MOH

Early use of alcohol and other drugs was closely linked to having sex under the age of 16 years, in all countries, especially in girls.

Where else would most guys have sex?

Parsley

Wibbs wrote: »

What next? "research proves that 99.999999999999 people agree the sky is blue".

The sky isn't blue :pac: Just light scattering through nitrogen and ozone and having all the frequencies absorbed except blue. :pac::pac::pac:

Spud83

tribulus wrote: »

Just stay drunk?

Oops wasted my 2000th post on that. Aw well most of them have been utter sh1te anyway!

+1, well to the utter sh1te part anyway.

MOH

Wibbs wrote: »

There's even a formula. Class

Although bizarrely the formula doesn't use distance even though it's included in the key below.

Hey, 2005, you made a mistake1

Wibbs

Parsley wrote: »

The sky isn't blue :pac: Just light scattering through nitrogen and ozone and having all the frequencies absorbed except blue. :pac::pac::pac:

That just proves the 0.00000000001 % is a git.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

A seperate study is underway to determine whether or not the teenagers in question can be trueted enough to tell the truth....

Wibbs

.... or sober enough.

AlmightyCushion

I think we should research a way to waste research money.

trout

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I think we should research a way to waste research money.

Clearly, you would need to carry out a feasability study first, to ensure due diligence, cost control and prudent use of resources. This would involve some break-out sessions, brainstorming, whiteboarding, market research and naturally a phased and progressive series of pilot studies in the various demographics.

I'm in ... :cool:

AlmightyCushion

trout wrote: »

Clearly, you would need to carry out a feasability study first, to ensure due diligence, cost control and prudent use of resources. This would involve some break-out sessions, brainstorming, whiteboarding, market research and naturally a phased and progressive series of pilot studies in the various demographics.

I'm in ... :cool:

It would need pie charts as well, lots and lots of pie charts.

trout

Yaah ... needs pie charts, data flow diagrams, fishbone diagrams, spider diagrams, full colour hierarchical nested mind maps, death by powerpoint, slide handouts and a theme tune.

I suggest the music from Airwolf as the theme tune ... or maybe The A-Team.

Nevyn

It's still not as much money spend on researching fecking beauty products, oh for a world when all the cosmetic company's are made turn over their rescouces for 3 years for some thing useful like a cure for leukaemia.

utick

Parsley wrote: »

The sky isn't blue :pac: Just light scattering through nitrogen and ozone and having all the frequencies absorbed except blue. :pac::pac::pac:

damn beat me to it

Black Swan

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

I think we should research a way to waste research money.

Well, I read about a study done by Washington State University over a 2-year period for $150,000 USD that measured the amount of methane gas emitted by belching cows, in terms of how that contributed to the Greenhouse Effect. When I first read it, I laughed, cause they were missing another important source of methane at the other end of the cow?

Did they ever prove the whole buttered toast debacle?

MooseJam

Deleted User wrote: »

Did they ever prove the whole buttered toast debacle?

lizardmen !

daveharnett

Deleted User wrote: »

Did they ever prove the whole buttered toast debacle?

Mythbusters disproved it, but i'm not sure their approach was expensive enough to count in this context.