a poor beginning

we were talking in class today about how there is a significant negative association between levels of fish consumption in society and levels of violent crime (read about it here), which seems to be linked specifically to omega-3 fatty acids. was immediately reminded of course of the silly science research whatsits we did in sec 3 (wasn't it bong and von who were looking at omega-3?), and how mine in particular had no scientific merit whatsoever, being completely devoid of any kind of statistical inference. it occurs to me that even as a means of getting feet wet, the SRP was for many of us a pretty lousy excuse for research, especially compared to the opportunities a*star is providing to kids in short trousers nowadays to do eastern and western and whatever-have-you blots. (here! use our million-dollar machines! oh wait, BONDED!!) thinking back, i realize my cynicism wrt science probably increased severalfold just because of SRP alone, making it a double, nay, treble wonder that i sit here now worrying about structural equation modeling and how on earth i'm going to get it done with my dataset.