Graphs?.... 
Posted on 04/27/2010 5:09:12 AM PDT by blf1776
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - The creator of Boobquake said the results are in: Boobquake did not move the earth.
On her blog, Purdue Senior Jennifer McCreight said that according to the USGS website, there were 47 earthquakes yesterday. That number may sound high, but in reality there are many earthquakes nearly every day and 47 is not an abnormal number.
McCreight said to be statistically abnormal there would have had to have been over 148 quakes yesterday - over three times the actual total.
The 6.5-magnitude earthquake in Taiwan had many buzzing that Boobquake had moved the earth, but the event's creator said that's not the case.
"Sorry to be a buzzkill - hey, I'd like magical control over plate tectonics too - but that single earthquake wasn't significant. Earthquakes between 6.0 and 6.9 magnitude happen, on average, 134 times a year. That means we had about a 37% probability of an earthquake of that magnitude happening on boobquake just due to chance alone - hardly an improbable event that needs to be attributed to an angry deity," stated McCreight on her blog.
The average magnitude of earthquakes yesterday was actually slightly lower than the average for the past two months, causing McCreight to quip that perhaps the hypothesis that immodest women reduce earthquakes needs to be examined.
McCreight is aware that her study has some flaws. For example, as she said on her blog, it would have been nice to have a control planet available where women wore only burkas yesterday.
Still, even if some criticize her results, she considers the event a success.
"Boobquake was originally intended to be a humorous exercise in scientific and skeptical thinking - that we should test claims people make, especially when they're ridiculous. And what could be a better way to do that than to question the methods of boobquake itself?" McCreight stated on her blog.
For graphs and additional commentary on McCreight's results, you can check out her blog .
Graphs?....
Yes, like global warming.
I post "egg throwing and smoke bombs being thrown at lawmakers" in another land as new law passed considered against the national interest( if here, would be whole diff story )...& you win! ;)
Ah, but the mullahs are a scientific bunch and they’ll claim that there may not be a strictly linear time correlation between the boobness and the quake. I think we need to leave those bras off a bit longer to test this hypothesis!
I’m sorry, but without the proper pics, I don’t think we can properly test the author’s hypothesis. =/
ridiculous claims:
socialism works
diversity is strength
the earth is warming due to humans burning fossil fuels
green energy can work
the elite know better
the earth is overpopulated
there is rampant racism in America
I heard she’s a “feminist”. Isn’t that cute!
This is apparently true in more ways than one. I didn't see a single woman who appeared in any way to be taking part in this "event".
So the whole idea was a ‘bust’ ?
If she tried that in zero gravity, those would snap her neck like a chicken...but I’d pay a whole US dollar to watch her try...
Silly girl, everyone knows it is global warming that causes earthquakes.
And we all know the reason for global warming...
bfl
It needs to be repeated multiple times under my close, personal supervision in order for the results to be considered valid.
It shouldn't take long. I'd say no more than 4 or 5 times a week for a period of several months ought to do it.
I’m not up to speed on the entertainment world...who is this woman?
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