insert humorous quip re: correlation & causation, with an extra side of beans

December 31, 2011 10:41 AM

Relating SCIENCE! to everyday life, Ouch: A Year's Worth of Occasionally Disturbing Research on How to Get Ahead is comedic advice on how to excel in the new year (from the usually-more-serious Harvard Business Review's "The Daily Stat") - reminiscent of Barking Up The Wrong Tree, a blog of tongue-in-cheek nuggets of research by Eric Barker.
posted by flex (1 comment total)

Great stuff. I've seen some of these suggestions in other contexts: notably the note about "joke about a very high figure when negotiating salary." And my salary review is this month!
posted by alasdair at 2:57 PM on January 1