That way, you’ll be pleasantly surprised when positive results happen, as opposed to the typical negative results we’ve come to expect.

But, with being a Reds fan, maybe a pessimist is really a realist? Po-ta-toh, po-tah-toe?

but I never doubted for a second you knew the order, Mads

You proclaim that 113 fans is a small sample size, but without any knowledge of actual data. 113 AB is a small sample size because variance is extremely high. If you had a sample size of 100 people, half of whom have been dosed with a certain chemical and all of them die, I’m fairly sure no one would argue that the sample size isn’t large enough to come to a conclusion. In most cases, there maybe other variables at work, and this is no exception, but the results are fairly limited anyway. The survey participants are fairly similar: they’re all students, and they all watched the same game. One question might be whether there’s some bias of the people who said they expected Ohio State to lose simply enjoy everything more, or if, because they always think they’re going to lose, they have a particularly grim outlook on life and winning a football game served as a particular highlight. But that’s not really a problem you can solve with a larger sample size in and of itself – you’d have to screen the participants based on how much they feel they enjoy the rest of their lives, as well, that is, it’s a scale problem, and you might be able to re-adjust the scale on an individual basis.

Also: of course there’s only one study – that’s how research is done these days: this piecemeal, discretized, write as many small papers as you can is an approach favored by the male-dominated academic hierarchy. (In any case, it’s a little disputable about how scientific this study is even intended to be, since it’s a communications professor, and will be published in a communications journal. Disclaimer: I don’t know really, anything about communications, so I’m not trying to say anything terrible about it; I just don’t know how scientific is.)

The results showed that the group that enjoyed the game the most were the Ohio State fans who were convinced that the Buckeyes would lose the game.

This implies that the comparisons WERE made between OSU fans who expected the team to lose, and the ones who expected the team to win: otherwise, there probably wouldn’t have been any findings made.

Also, I think your comment about women in science was a joke: but it’s a fairly dominant idea even still, that I had a hard time with in school, and taken in context, it doesn’t sound like a joke at all.

Altogether now: Tl; dr.

If I were a fuck up and spent one extra year in undergrad, I could be leaving for Spain tomorrow.

I can just imagine going to your house for Thanksgiving dinner and waking up in the back of a 1975 Cadillac Eldorado convertible rural AZ three days later with no recollection of how I got there.