Bad research

Or at least bad research titles. Sarah Shreeves shared this post from Bug Girl's Blog on Google reader. It is a rant about mis-titled teaser headline that appeared on some sort of news site thus

“Science still cannot explain why women sleep around”

“A study published today in Science details a series of careful experiments Swedish researchers conducted on mating seed beetles (pictured). They want to find out what the benefits were to females who mated with multiple males….”

It takes quite a bit of reading of the teaser article and the original in Science to figure out they're talking about beetles. Not human women, beetles.

I especially like the fact that Bug Girl's blog has tag's that specify that she is going on a rant and then breaks them down further by subject, Ranting (feminism) and Ranting (General). I am going to have to steal her idea and some rant tags to my own rather pathetic list of tags. I should be ashamed of myself, and me, attached to someone who knows an awful darn lot about metadata.

And then I am going to try out my new rant tags by going on a rant, this time about crappy research.

Comments

[Alan]

That is one National Inquirer-level research report. Is Science that hard up for readers that they need to resort to something like this?

[Term papers]

I also have a same question like alan...