It’s not so obvious after all…

We’ve all seen them – headlines about scientific findings that cause people to roll their eyes and say “but that’s obvious – I can’t believe my tax dollars were wasted on doing a study on that”. You know the sort of thing I’m talking about “Study shows that abused children are less trusting”, “Study shows Jews are less likely to vote for anti-semitic candidates”, “Study shows that students addicted to heroine do worse in school”. I made those particular headlines up, but those sorts of headli...