{"id":20375,"date":"2016-10-14T00:42:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20375"},"modified":"2016-10-14T00:42:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:42:58","slug":"when-research-is-not-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=20375","title":{"rendered":"When Research is NOT Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

That well-known scientific organisation VoucherCodesPro.co.uk has carried out some \u201cresearch\u201d into the kind of music being listened to at the time people had accidents. They conclude that Adele, Justin Bieber, and Sia were the biggest offenders. The full list is as follows:<\/p>\n

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    1. Adele \u2013 18%<\/li>\n
    2. Justin Bieber \u2013 17%<\/li>\n
    3. Sia \u2013 15%<\/li>\n
    4. Slip Knot \u2013 14%<\/li>\n
    5. Rihanna \u2013 14%<\/li>\n
    6. Drake \u2013 13%<\/li>\n
    7. The Beatles \u2013 10%<\/li>\n
    8. Calvin Harris \u2013 8%<\/li>\n
    9. Eminem \u2013 8%<\/li>\n
    10. Kanye West \u2013 7%<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ol>\n

      No other data are given \u2013 such as age, sex, ethnicity, or location \u2013 which would be on any scientist\u2019s list of vital pieces of information (mind you, it\u2019s probably illegal to identify sex and ethnicity in case they point to something the Thought Police don\u2019t like). All they say is that respondents were \u201cover 18\u201d. Oh, and that the average number of accidents these people had had over a two-year period was two, with fourteen near misses!<\/font><\/p>\n

      When you combine that last part with the fact that – with only one or possibly two exceptions, and even then only just – the type of music being listened to says a lot about the mental ages of the people responding, you get a very good idea of where the problem actually lies. It\u2019s all baby music.<\/font><\/p>\n

      By comparison, I have had one accident in 10 years – and that was because some stupid cow ran a red light in poor weather in the dark. I can\u2019t recall any \u201cnear misses\u201d in that same period, even with learners driving. <\/font>The \u201cresearch\u201d clearly shows that the kind of person most likely to listen to Adele or Justin Bieber is the type most likely to be an inexperienced\/crap driver who is likely to hit things instead of going around them. It doesn\u2019t prove in any way that Adele and Justin Bieber are direct distractions.<\/font><\/p>\n

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      When asked why the music has been such a distraction, the top reasons cited were \u2013 \u201cI was singing and dancing when I should have been focusing on the road\u201d (43%)\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      I can\u2019t imagine many men doing that. I\u2019m sorry, but I just can\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      That well-known scientific organisation VoucherCodesPro.co.uk has carried out some \u201cresearch\u201d into the kind of music being listened to at the time people had accidents. They conclude that Adele, Justin Bieber, and Sia were the biggest offenders. The full list is as follows: Adele \u2013 18% Justin Bieber \u2013 17% Sia \u2013 15% Slip Knot \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}