T110's Second Summer of Love (And Tolerance)

KilljoyCutter, on Jun 01 2014 - 16:50, said:   It compares highly trained subjects in particular situations, with the average person in an entirely different situation.    "Being stepped on is more often lethal to rats than being stabbed with a combat knife is lethal to elephants, therefore stepping on things is obviously a far more effective weapon!"     For a valid study, you'd need to get a bunch of fighter pilots and riot police, and have them drive the commute into London and back for a month, and then compare to the results taken in the air combat / riot control parts of the study.  (Since you can't just take the average London commuter and actually put them in a dogfight or in front of a massive riot.)       E: and what's worse, when this study first hit the media, many of the taglines and headlines read something like "Commuting more stressful than combat!"