The study was conducted by a research team of Kappa Omicron Nu Honor Society undergraduate and graduate students under the direction of Peggy S. Meszaros, the William E. Lavery Professor of human development and director of the Center for Information Technology Impacts in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
The report learned:
1. Students regularly used their cell phones - an average of 11 calls per day. (Would they use their cell phones as a fashion accessory?)
2. 80% of the cell phone users talk between 6pm and midnight. (Gee, when do rates go down?)
3. Most preferred to use their cell phones at home. (Let me guess, where are people most of the time?)
4. Girls like to use their cell phone in the car. (Then who is driving the car?)
5. Boys like to use their cell phones at school. (It beats studying.)
6. Three main categories of cell phone calls...family members, boyfriends or girlfriends, and friends/relatives. ("I hate that guy. I think I'll call him and tell him." Uh, who else would most people call most of the time?"
What surprises me is that a school, Virginia Tech, studied this!? I mean, how much time and/or money was wasted on such a study to find out the amazingly obvious?
Someone should do a study on why colleges and universities are allowed to waste time researching such things.
What would you like to research?
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