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Friday, July 30, 2010

Beards and Happiness: A Twin study

Left: Rudimentary beard. Right: Complete beard.
Other members of the family, with no beard at all, are too depressed to be shown here.

The left-hand twin has an ENTICINGLY LARGE FOREHEAD but the Beard effect on happiness remains significant even after controlling for this confounding variable with the use of partial regression.
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11 comments:

  1. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©July 30, 2010 at 5:08 AM

    NO bias on part of the author, of course.
    ~

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  2. tigrisJuly 30, 2010 at 8:06 AM

    Still doing twin studies, eh? Do you continue to find that one sibling looks remarkably like the other?

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  3. H. Rumbold, Master BarberJuly 30, 2010 at 9:18 AM

    c.f. Beards by Reginald Reynolds for an answer to the musical question "Does pogonotrophy correlate with hippophagy?" and why the holy roman catholic and apostolic church was cooler when they let priests wear beards (e.g. Italian Renaissance).

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  4. mikeyJuly 30, 2010 at 11:29 AM

    Wait, wait, hang on.

    I'm looking at the picture and they BOTH have facial hair.

    I think the one on the right is the gay one, so I'm gonna guess the one on the left with the 'enticingly large forehead' is the Beard...

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  5. Hamish MackJuly 30, 2010 at 12:57 PM

    Worst ZZ Top cover band evah!!

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  6. JenniferJuly 30, 2010 at 2:14 PM

    I expected to see a picture of Katie Holmes!

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  7. zombie rotten mcdonaldJuly 30, 2010 at 3:12 PM

    this isn't that kind of blog, Jennifer.

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  8. KathleenJuly 30, 2010 at 3:51 PM

    he still looks pretty cowardly to me

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  9. Smut ClydeJuly 30, 2010 at 5:16 PM

    c.f. Beards by Reginald Reynolds
    That's going on the gift registry.

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  10. AnonymousJuly 31, 2010 at 12:24 AM

    And no one mentions the ear thing.

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  11. Big Bad Bald BastardJuly 31, 2010 at 4:49 AM

    The guy on the right looks like William Ashbless.

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