Monday, October 8, 2007

HW 17: The Science of Strippers' Tips

From the "Salon: Broadsheet" blog my eye was caught by "The science of stripper tips" by Carol Lloyd: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/10/04/stripper_tips/index.html?source=rss&aim=broadsheet
In fact they celebrate the fact that, "A new study finds that strippers make more money when they're ovulating"(opening pp.) Geoffrey Miller, a psychologist at the University of New Mexico studies the breakthrough. He claims that observers could guess nearly 60 percent of the time whether a woman was ovulating based on her dress. I think it's hillarious that people actually study things as rediculous as this. Sure, women can be complicated...but why complicate more? Miller does have good points supported the fluctuation in wage. It's quite interesting and worth reading.

1 comment:

Tracy Mendham said...

In analyzing the text, it's also important to note that the Broadsheet blogger who authored the post, Carole Lloyd, does not celebrate Miller's work and questions the validity of the study.