This Can’t Be Real

Seriously

While a good portion of the global public holds out hope for some good news from Haiti, you want to believe that your money or volunteered time could help someway in the humanitarian effort down there. Well, the people involved with this study however, can never ever say that. Ever. The money that funded this study is gone forever, unable to help those in need. And by “help” I mean, money that could have been ignited in a bon fire to keep refugees warm because that would have been money better spent.

It may be no surprise that people are happier on weekends. But research out today looks at the psychology behind that mood boost. Men and women alike feel better — emotionally and physically — from Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, regardless of their age, education, salary, marital status or how many hours they work, the study says. It’s published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

I want to propose a new rule of thumb for scientific research. If the best way to begin to describe the results of your study are: “It may be no surprise that,” you don’t need to do the study. Problem solved. It’s not a surprise in this case because peope don’t have to drag their asses out of bed on the weekend and work for a company they don’t give two shits about. Voila. Research finished.

But the weekend effect isn’t the same for those who regularly work weekends and have days off during the week. Most people are happiest on days without work, Ryan says.

The funny thing is, I wrote my rant above before I even got to the end of the article and read those 2 final sentences. What a shocker, huh?! Good Lord. Sometimes the usage of our research dollars couldn’t be any more of a joke.

Haiti, we’re thinking about you…

And Dr. Ryan if you want to be of some help, just please don’t bring your “Happier when not working” findings to Haiti right now. Trust me.