Friday, October 01, 2004

This Would Tend To Explain Things If Deli77 Were White

Here's the abstract to an award winning study.
This article assesses the link between country music and metropolitan suicide rates. 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. Our model explains 51% of the variance in urban white suicide rates.
Deli77 will no longer be allowed to post lyrics for fear that this blog will lose its white readership. Fortunately, Deli77 isn't white, meaning he can listen to that shit all he wants, which is quite unfortunate for those who ride in his car.

By the way, who knew there was a patent for this? Also an Ig Noble recepient.

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