Obvious Research Studies
I studied Psychology at university which I still consider to be a useful and very varied subject. However, media reports of psychological studies have always bugged me because they always seem to pick the ‘common sense’ results studies. This reinforces the popular belief that studying psychology is a waste of time because it is all ‘obvious’. Although this video parody report from the Onion is not psychology related, it made me laugh because it is a good example of this ‘obvious research’ reported in the media.
Facebook is
I have noticed a trend that Facebook seems to be replacing blogging as an online activity. I think this is a real shame as Facebook is much more superficial and less thoughtful than individual’s blogs. I expect the reason for Facebook’s rise in popularity is to do with this though – as you don’t need to spend hours musing over something to write, you just type a one sentence status update to let your friends know what you’re up to:
Sidekick is: sad that no-one is blogging as much
Sidekick is: short of something to blog about herself
Sidekick is: annoyed by facebookÂ
Interesting clothes
Yesterday the Ranter made me get rid of loads of clothes. This was quite difficult for me to do, even though some of them are 10 years old and I never wear them. We drove around where we live now to find a charity shop to give them to, but The Methodist Centre was closed and we couldn’t find anywhere else. We ended up driving to Clifton to find Charity shops (for people who don’t know Bristol, Clifton is the poshist part of the city and where we live isn’t). We came to the conclusion that for charity shops to work well they need to be in an area where people are rich enough to be frivilous in throwing out clothes which can still be worn, but where there are people poor enough to buy second hand clothes (and not proud). Clifton is perfect for this as it’s a mixture of very well off people and students.
The good news is I bought a couple of items of ‘interesting clothes’ today, because the reason I found getting rid of clothes difficult was that all the clothes I wear currently are boring (interesting clothes sit in the cupboard because they no longer fit me!).
Challenge: can people who know me guess when I’m wearing my new ‘interesting clothes’?
Comment: for those of you who have come to this blog via The Ranter, this is probably a bit of a culture shock and the words I use a probably a bit too easy to understand!
Classic facebook anthem (best viewed on facebook of course)
March 7, 2008 at 6:54 pm (cultural comment, superficial)
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