People take off their shirts when it gets hot: peer-reviewed study

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/03/01/people-take-off-their-shirts-when-it-gets-hot-peer-reviewed-study/ ^ | William M Briggs

[mattstat]

I am finding it difficult to breath after reading this abstract from a peer-reviewed scholarly article in a respected journal.

This paper describes the application of a methodology designed to analyse the relationship between climatic conditions and the perception of bioclimatic comfort...

In case you are not used to parsing academicese, I have take the liberty of re-writing this abstract in plain English...

[perfect stranger]

[Rudder]

Do we now have to excerpt from wmbriggs.com?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hot females should always take their shirts off. :-)

[Jemian]

The experiment proved that this methodology is well-suited to achieving the proposed objectives and that it may be applied in other areas and in other seasons.

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We plan on asking these questions in Hawaii in January if we can get another grant.

[Keli Kilohana]

AND, it gets dark at night—so that’s when most people like to sleep.

[dayglored]

> Hot females should always take their shirts off. :-)

That was the subject of a DIFFERENT grant study...

[Mad Dawgg]

"That was the subject of a DIFFERENT grant study..."

I heard Hugh Grant conducted a study something like that one.

[imintrouble]

Oh goody I hope these brainiacs do one on “consumption of foodstuffs to assuage pangs of sustenance needs.” :o)

[Proverbs 3-5]

I think a study should be done to determine whether or not if you drink coffee all morning that you will have to pee a lot...

[Seruzawa]

Your tax dollars at work folks. Send a copy of this to your legislators the next time the schools come crying that they need more money. Less money might eliminate a lot of this worthless crud.

[MarkL]

"That was the subject of a DIFFERENT grant study..."

I heard Hugh Grant conducted a study something like that one.

I have no doubt that the grant was hugh, since this was a series study... And fully (over) funded by tax dollars.

Mark

[tarheelswamprat]

Hot females should always take their shirts off. :-)

Those studies are usually privately funded in one-dollar increment grants at public entertainment venues...

[Ditter]

I have done my own study on coffee and peeing and you are absolutely correct! In fact I do a new study very morning and it always comes out the same. More coffee, more trips to the bathroom.

[driftdiver]

“I heard Hugh Grant conducted a study something like that one.”

His study was slightly different. He left the hot chick at home and went for the ugly high mileage prostitute.

[Allegra]

I’m doing a study to see if feet get warmer when you put socks on them.

[Chode]

declared by people who never worked outside a day in their life...

what's next... people put ON coats and jackets and boots when it's cold out???

[SC Swamp Fox]

An initial assessment of the bioclimatic comfort in an outdoor public space in Lisbon, International Journal of Biometeorology, 52, 69-84

Unless some UN agency kicked in the funds, this was probably funded by EU taxpayers.

[mamelukesabre]

The less intelligent disrobe when it’s hot. The intelligent know that you are cooler wearing thin light colored loose fitting fabric. Bedouins don’t wear turbans because they are trying to cook their brains.