It's Obvious Science Day!!!

[angeoverhere]

A morning scan of today's science page on the Beeb brings me the following astonishing studies, brought to you by the power of the silly season. It's August, there's absolutely f-all happening in the news, but the poor buggers have to keep reporting *something*. This led to an excruciatingly funny end to the Today programme this morning, involving

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[syllopsium]

'Having too little sleep makes you tired, grumpy, and prone to mistakes scientists say'
'setting targets to achieve objectives leads people to match the targets instead of the objectives was found in an extensive 5 minute survey'
'Shock as it's found that certain roles attract certain people, and those roles encourage people to behave in certain ways'

[ciphergoth]

Whenever I see those things in the paper, I always think "yes, but at least someone's quantified it now"...

[angeoverhere]

That's exactly it, which is why the rant about "why do they waste taxpayer's money on this nonsense" is so hollow.

[reindeerflotila]

Was there not a good piece on Saturn's G Ring?

**giggles**

[wildeabandon]

I'm actually quite surprised by the last one. I find that not having a stressful job makes me bored and miserable, whereas a stressful one that I'm good at makes me much happier. I didn't think that was particularly unusual.

[thekumquat]

They seem to be only looking at chronic stress factors (feeling out of control) rather than acute stress factors like tight deadlines.

I'm terrible at the former and very good at the latter. So currently I'm excellent at the parts of my job that involve crisis management, but where's a crisis when I need one?

[skibbley]

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