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If you like your coffee black, you may be someone who prefers strong flavours, takes good care of their health, or just wants to drink their coffee the way it’s supposed to be drunk.
At least, that’s according to a new study published in the journal Appetite, which found a correlation between a love of black coffee and sadist or psychopathic tendencies.
The research surveyed more than 1,000 adults, asking them to give their food and flavour preferences. The participants then took a series of personality tests assessing antisocial personality traits, such as sadism, narcissism and psychopathy.
The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Innsbruck, found that a preference for bitter flavours was linked to psychopathic behaviour.
The study missed a key, deciding factor: the coffee that psychopaths drink black is instant.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:13AM (3 children)
It was never good enough. Imagine if Kepler stopped at "orbital velocity of Mars is correlated with distance from sun, and also the color of the leaves". Or Newton stopped at "acceleration due to gravity is correlated with the distance between the objects, and also their albedo". I really do not care if you found a correlation, there are unlimited number of real, actual correlations that are of no use to anyone. Then on top of this they are too cheap to make sure they find those, but p-hack into "fake"/transient ones. If you find a correlation and think it is interesting, do the next step and figure out what process could explain the actual relationship. With research like this they just stop at the correlations and get stuck there for decades. It is just collecting correlations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @12:28AM
I mean appreciate these papers for what they are: homework assignments you need to do to graduate.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 24 2017, @07:20AM (1 child)
Planet speed is indeed strongly correlated with brightness: The closer the planet is to the sun, the more light it receives from the sun.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 24 2017, @03:47PM
Yes I was trying to use non-negligible correlations as an example.