A couple of gems from the social scientists.
Item one:-
'Social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace are unlikely to help users build close new friendships, a researcher said Tuesday.
'This is because people feel they need face-to-face contact in order to develop trust, said Doctor Will Reader, from Sheffield Hallam University.'
Well, duh, as everyone seems to be saying lately.
Item two:-
'People are willing to dish out more dough to live in neighborhoods with others of the same race and education level, a new study finds.'
Yes, right across the board: both white and black, both the college-educated and (this, I admit, is perhaps not a total 'well, duh') the non-college-educated.
Rich neighbours are popular with everyone, though. Furthermore...
'Those with higher income, as well as a higher education level, also were willing to pay more to live in a neighborhood served by better schools, a factor that could lead to exclusion eventually of lower-income families from "good" school districts, the researchers stated.
'"Our estimates suggest that the improvement in a school's quality would disproportionately attract more highly educated households to the neighborhood, in turn making the neighborhood even more attractive to higher-income, highly educated households, and raising prices further," Patrick Bayer of Duke University and his co-authors said in a prepared statement.'
Who'd have thought it? Well, OK, maybe not the zealous egalitarians who gave Britain its comprehensive school system.
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Yet more homespun wisdom from those with Doctorates in Stating-The-Bleeding-Obvious!
Huldah here stole the words out of my piehole...
Yep, more scientists could not be all bad if you consider the global warming - to use one example.
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