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Title: Ig Noble Award for Country Music Study
Post by: EUOL on October 01, 2004, 08:37:40 PM

I found this one amusing.  One of this year's Ig Noble awards (pseudo-humorous awards given out by Nobel winners) went to someone who did a study on Country Music.

The result:

"The medicine prize went to Steven Stack of Wayne State University and James Gundlach of Auburn University, for their 1992 report, "The Effect of Country Music on Suicide." The research of 49 metropolitan areas concluded "that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate."

Reference:
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20041001/D85ESKPG1.html

Title: Re: Ig Noble Award for Country Music Study
Post by: Master Xaio on October 02, 2004, 07:12:07 AM

Yeah, well having being forced by my father to listen to copius (sp?) amounts of Country Music, I'd just about believe it...

Title: Re: Ig Noble Award for Country Music Study
Post by: stacer on October 02, 2004, 08:57:59 AM

I happen to like country, and I've never felt suicidal.

...A non-scientific response.