Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Science Journalism - An Ethnic Joke

BrooklynDodger posts this only because it had a decent cadence to the comparisons. The Dodger doubts there are objective observable individual characteristics, validated for inter rater variability, to match the characteristics below.

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Science gets the last laugh on ethnic jokes
Study shows that real personalities don’t match national stereotypes

By Kathleen Wren
Science
Updated: 2:07 p.m. ET Oct. 6, 2005

WASHINGTON - “Heaven is where the police are English, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and everything is organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and everything is organized by the Italians.”

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