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Posts Tagged ‘scientific studies’

SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

Hot Older Ladies More Attractive During Recessions

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

She ruled.According to Experts, the recently minted members of America’s middle class — the ones who got ARMs on their three-bedroom ranches in the exurbs and took out $600 a month car loans on their Ford Explorers and used credit cards to pay for their Starbucks Gargantua-chinos every morning — will now be sad hobos along with the rest of us. They will be the “former middle class.” But one traditionally neglected and sorely undervalued population should do quite well in the tough times ahead: sexy ladies of a certain age. MORE »


SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

Random Blurtings Reveal Voters’ Innermost Thoughts

Monday, July 7th, 2008

My head hurts.If the global collective unconscious may be likened to a vast, roiling ocean, then your average American voter’s mental workings are a fetid kiddie pool with a half-deflated beach ball bobbing around the perimeter. So what better way to plumb voters’ depths than to ask them to shout out whatever word comes into their head whenever they hear some other word? MORE »


OLD PEOPLE

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

OBVIOUS HUMOR EXPLAINED: An important Scientific Study reveals that sarcasm is actually a form of mind-reading, so congratulations Wonkette fans, you get a BIG GOLD STAR for your paranormal brilliance. [NYT]