How can you guys even look at this study and think athiests are less happy than Christians? That's not what this is about. Athiests and Christians use twitter in different ways, surprise surprise.

Well it's not really a court ruling... It's the passage of proposed legislation, which we'll see if that happens. In the end it sounds like that kind of legislation wouldn't stop MS from using the Kinect all the time, they just couldn't do it until you've opted in to be surveillanced upon

Well you're absolutely right that this is a possibility. I'm not so sure the data would turn out this way, but where you're DEAD wrong is whether or not the data exists. The data does exist, if these researchers didn't think to answer your question then they're probably idiots, because it's an obvious follow-up.…

I think it's more about coping with the chronic loneliness of being a graduate student in the first place... This is why I found a roommate with dogs. Also, in defense of dog-loving grad students. A lot of us just can't afford an apartment that allows dogs

You're very clearly asking for too much

By which you mean "we can as a society eliminate cruel racism without jettisoning white privilege"

Well I'd argue that what distinguishes this boring research from an Ig Nobel winner is that it could reasonably form the basis for actually important research. This is a baseline from which we could test for methods of improvement. Modeling coffee physics is equally trivial, but also has no future applications. Plus,…

Clearly it's not an amazing article, but that's why it's in the journal it is. This is just the way science works. It's highly likely the scientists here publishes these results as a stepping stone to more interesting work. It's hard to publish a study on reducing breast pain if there isn't already a study showing…