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October 15, 2004
Guns Don't Kill People...
Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate. The effect is independent of divorce, southernness, poverty, and gun availability. The existence of a country music subculture is thought to reinforce the link between country music and suicide.
So, you know what happens when you play a country music record backward but, do you know why hula hoops stay up? um... gee that's a tough question but don't worry. Ramesh Balasubramaniam of the University of Ottawa, and Michael Turvey of the University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratory, spent over eight months trying to figure that one out.
Posted by LindaSoG at October 15, 2004 08:42 AM