music, drugs & toilet seats

The Munger's Cognitive Daily discussed the correlation that exists between type of alcohol/drug and musical preference among college students in their recent "casual fridays" post.

"...Rap, Electronic, and to a lesser extent Rock fans expressed any significant positive correlation with substance use. Rock fans were significantly more likely than chance to use only beer and hallucinogens. Classical fans had significant negative correlations with every substance except wine, which was still a marginally significant negative correlation with r = -.08. Far from being wine snobs, it appears that most Classical fans prefer to avoid pretty much all mind-altering substances. The preferred genre of wine drinkers? Alternative, with a .12 correlation between wine drinking and listening. No other genre was significantly correlated with wine drinking in this measure."

So statistics has once again explained real-life phenomena. I love it. Next, regression and sports betting.... By the way, the Math department of our college has proposed a new general education course on statistics. When it was presented during the recent college faculty meeting, I wanted so much to be a student and take it---it's statistics and how it can be applied in real-life situations such as investments, gambling (hehehehe...oops), TV ratings, etc. It's fabulous!

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On the heavier side of the news (pun intended), a woman was found trapped and fused to a toilet seat after fighting with her boyfriend:

"The woman probably became fused to the seat because of skin-penetrating wounds that developed on her behind. Such pressure sores, also known as bedsores, are lesions caused by sustained pressure to the body. In this case, the woman’s skin and underlying tissues became trapped between the ischium—the butt bone—and the toilet seat, cutting off blood flow and causing the affected tissue to become necrotic—i.e., to die. Such sores tend to be quite painful, enough that she probably stopped moving to minimize the pain. After being rooted in one position for long enough (the sheriff estimated at least three to four weeks of continuous sitting), the lesions became open sores, and eventually extended to the tissue below the skin. But the body persistently tries to heal, and as the wounds attempted to scab over, they actually scabbed onto the seat, fusing her down."

I initially LMFAO when I read the toilet seat post, but putting myself in the woman's shoes--it would really have been damn uncomfortable.