University of Helsinki researchers studied more than 2000 American men and women over two decades to conclude that beautiful women tend to have more beautiful children. Well, yeah...! The reason the mostly unmarried researchers offer is that beautiful women are more likely to be married, because beauty is what guys look for. Well, yeah....!
It's called sex, fellas.
University of Tel Aviv researchers tested subjects attending scary movies. Their complex studies concluded that when the attendees closed their eyes, the sounds of the movie were actually more frightening than when their eye were open. "Closing your eyes apparently changes how the brain perceives and processes all kinds of music," reported neuroscientist Talma Hendler. Well, again, yeah...!
It's called radio, Talma!
OK. OK. this is being cynical on the cheap. Scientific research has surely brought us a world of creativity and cures. Only sometimes our highly sophisticated age does tend toward exotic proofs of the obvious. It reminds you of another piece of common sense we've all learned even without any costly research teams to statisticalize it for us: By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
I found that out without reading single generational research paper on the subject. Makes me remember what my unschooled Dad once warned me: "Jack, sometimes the light you find is not at the end of a tunnel, but a gangplank."
Now you either study that or not....
I think sometimes the answer is yes and no. Science can become SO complicated and SO statistical that it seems to eliminate all common sense. I think that's why so many intelligent people have no common sense.
ReplyDeleteBut for simpletons like myself, :-) I can sometimes read the common sense into all the big scientific discoveries. It depends on the subject.
Like you said, if it comes to studying beautiful women having beautiful children....well duh! :-)
Duh, indeed! Common sense may not cost as much as science research, but very often it has just as much merit...
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