Tuesday, January 22, 2008

And in other news, the earth is round

This just in from the obvious department - Northwestern University released a study concluding that teenagers find online news troubling, whereas they much prefer sites where they can download music, network socially and watch videos (You Tube).

Thanks, kind researchers. I might expect something like this to come from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, but Northwestern? Things must be slow around Evanston these days.

-JT

1 comment:

i'm talking louder said...

The UK Medical Research Council did a study on how "Living in an ugly area makes you obese."

http://www.blog-re.com/2005/08/spare_us_from_pointless_resear.html

At least Northwestern's study was done via private funding. :)

-sm