This Week's Research Contribution

A federal study by Statistics Canada found that poor Canadians are more likely to take out payday loans than other Canadians. WOW !!! Let me see. Poor people who work from paycheck to paycheck are more likely to take short term loans until their next paycheck. I wonder why someone with savings wouldn't borrow money at high interest rates for a couple of days. Who would have guessed. Its this sort of out there research that made me want to do a PhD and ask meaningful questions.

I wonder if they're looking into whether people who live in apartments tend to live further from the ground than those who live in houses?

I wonder if their follow up research will look at whether chronic gamblers and drug users are more likely to borrow from the Guido the loan shark.

Our tax dollars at work. Where can I get a research grant. I'd like to study the correlation between taxpayer cynicism and Stats Canada research.