Posted on 11/23/2009 11:18:31 AM PST by NativeNewYorker
Besides being a big day for eating, Thanksgiving is a big day for another American tradition: football-watching. A new working paper, however, makes this ritual a bit more ominous than turkey-stuffing.
The study, by the economists David Card at Berkeley and Gordon B. Dahl at the University of California-San Diego, looked at police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. (An earlier, free version of the study is here.)
The researchers were interested in what happened when a home team suffered an upset, which they defined as losses in games that the home team had been predicted to win by more than 3 points.
After controlling for things like location and weather, they found that upset losses by the home team were associated with higher rates of domestic violence. In fact, an upset typically led to an 8 percent increase in police reports of at-home incidents where a man attacked a female partner.
Upset losses in games involving a traditional rival had an even bigger effect on the rate of partner violence as did unexpected losses after games involving an unusual number of sacks, turnovers or penalties.
(Excerpt) Read more at economix.blogs.nytimes.com ...
Thats just not right!!
So are perpetual motion machines if one doesn't take friction into account. I've heard this man bashing myth for over a decade and I'm sick and tired of it!
It was but, maybe, the Treason Times would forget this was debuned and start the filthy urban myth all over again.
A female rival in intellect to Dr. Thomas Sowell, PH.d named Christina Hoff Sommers, PH.d also had to mention this urban myth in order to debunk it (this was over a decade ago).
I think you're mis-remembering. The study doesn't say that violence increases in general for all fans watching the game. Or that those fans of the losing team are more violent. It makes new, more specific claims.
Nope, this is definitely true.
The Raiders beat the Chiefs, so I spiked my dog.
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