Comments On: What's a Good Time of Day to Die? by Paul Constant http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/11/26/whats-a-good-time-of-day-to-die Comments On: What's a Good Time of Day to Die? by Paul Constant en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:45:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]>
/would be nice if they stuck it at the end, not as if they need to save space or anything online.
Posted by wingedkat]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:55:32 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]>
The abstract doesn't say anything about their sample size. A p-value of .015 is pretty good and it's not an implausible premise, but at the very least they could have given me n.

Seriously, though, don't ever believe anything about science or health that you read in the HuffPo. They're fucking crackers for woo-woo fake medicine and overhyped research press releases. Just the fact that they covered this story makes me want to demand a replication before I believe it.
Posted by balderdash]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:07:23 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Posted by OOF POOF]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 17:49:26 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> The Atlantic reports researchers believe their results may be due to the human body reverting to its more natural, circadian rhythm-induced state as death approaches, instead of the cycle created by social commitments.Wait, what?

The Atlantic original:
Intriguingly, the authors hypothesize that the social commitments that would usually normalize people of varying circadian rhythms became irrelevant as the subjects approached death, allowing them to drift toward their natural states.
Makes those post-prandial dyspeptic attacks a little less worrisome. Word choice and order actually matter, lieblings.
Posted by rob!]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:11:07 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Posted by Reverse Polarity]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:10:19 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Posted by Pope Peabrain]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:53:48 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:49:50 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Posted by treacle]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:45:56 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Posted by Mattini]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:34:29 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Game of Thrones.

Shagga: "How would you like to die, Tyrion son of Tywin?"
Tyrion Lannister: "In my own bed, at the age of eighty, with a bellyful of wine and a girl's mouth around my cock."
Posted by Knat]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:14:40 -0800 The Stranger <![CDATA[Re: What's a Good Time of Day to Die?]]> Posted by very bad homo]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:07:18 -0800 The Stranger