Jen McCreight's "Boobquake" is quite the meme. On April 26, women all over the globe will wear their most revealing outfits. The idea is to demonstrate to Iranian cleric Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi that he is full of shit.
The facebook event alone has attracted 14,000 participants (including your truly).
I applaud this effort but unfortunately the experiment is flawed. If women in random geographies wear provocative clothing, we will no doubt experience an earthquake or two in some of those areas. Alaska, for example, has multiple earthquakes on a daily basis. Random statistical clustering is to be expected, sadly not demonstrating that this Iranian cleric is talking arse gravy.
In order to thoroughly test this we need a number of control groups.
Control Group 1: Women dressed in burqas in an area not typically known to experience earthquakesControl Group 2: Women dressed in burqas in an area frequently known to experience earthquakesControl Group 3: Women dressed in burqas in an area occasionally known for earthquakesControl Group 4: Women dressed in jeans and sweats in an area not typically known to experience earthquakesControl Group 5: Women dressed in jeans and sweats in an area frequently known to experience earthquakesControl Group 6: Women dressed in jeans and sweats in an area occasionally known for earthquakesControl Group 7: Women dressed immodestly in an area not typically known to experience earthquakesControl Group 8: Women dressed in immodestly in an area frequently known to experience earthquakesControl Group 9: Women dressed in immodestly in an area occasionally known for earthquakesControl Group 10: Naked women in an area not typically known to experience earthquakesControl Group 11: Naked women in an area frequently known to experience earthquakesControl Group 12: Naked women in an area occasionally known for earthquakesControl Group 13: Copulating naked women in an area not typically known to experience earthquakesControl Group 14: Copulating naked women in an area frequently known to experience earthquakesControl Group 15: Copulating naked women in an area occasionally known for earthquakesControl Group 16: All of the above but with men, and then again the above with men engaging in homosexual activities and/or thoughts.
I am volunteering to observe and document Control Group 10, for purely scientific reasons you understand
2 comments:
How did I guess that you would make a post about this?
I've got Control Group 15: Louisville sits near both the Wabash Valley and New Madrid Seismic Zones, and we're 200 years overdue for another "big one."
And, Darwin knows, I am. ;)
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