More Research Required

Abby and Amy get spooky and ask: do people who prefer vampires to werewolves prefer cats to dogs?  Discussion topics include: Twilight and Teen Wolf, house fires, and the o m i n o u s  L a t i n  w h i s p e r s . Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

(cw: mentions of transphobia) Abby and Amy start to ask: do gender neutral bathrooms effect college students' perceptions of gender? And then they ask something completely different instead. Discussion topics include: the plural of data, reading way too much about bodily fluids, and the potential uses for college endowments. Our gender theory reading list, provided by a Friend of the Podcast, is: Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer by Riki Wilchins Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg Whipping Girl by Julia Serano Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy put on a definitive air of ennui and ask: are people with better eyesight better at art? Discussion topics include: crafting a nuanced and all-encompassing definition of art, surprise math, and an ancient curse that forces co-hosts to inhabit each other's bodies. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy get a little blue and ask: does the language you use to curse make you stronger? Discussion topics include: polite conversation in WWI, remembering the Ice Bucket Challenge, and calling the police for cussin'. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy meet up IRL with three research questions, two glasses of wine, and one microphone for this Chicago-themed minisode. Discussion topics include: pizza allegiances, Midwestern politeness, and second cities. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy engage in one of the most heated debates of our time to ask: do cat people like dogs more than dog people like cats? Discussion topics include: the anti-cat agenda, Milgram 2: The Sequel to the Milgram Experiments, and 2001 film classic Cats & Dogs. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy spend an exhausted post-Fourth of July episode asking: are there demographics that influence levels of state and city pride? Discussion topics include firework appreciation strategies, mercilessly trashing New York and other beloved American institutions, and Bog Hole, Texas. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy get into the Father's Day spirit to ask : are dads really the hardest kind of person to buy gifts for? Discussion topics include Gender Points, highly invasive testing, and dad jokes so potent that they jeopardize the very survival of the hosts' working relationship. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy set out on an expedition to discover: are the maps in fantasy novels always just Europe? Discussion topics include literature in translation, Warrior Cats as a high fantasy series, and robots(!). Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy consult the heavens to find an answer to the question: if you have the traits widely associated with your horoscope, are you more likely to believe in astrology? Discussion topics include Astrology Is Real, Astrology is Fake, and Omacron, the thirteenth star sign. You can find out more about misuse of research methods and Daryl Bem at https://redux.slate.com/cover-stories/2017/05/daryl-bem-proved-esp-is-real-showed-science-is-broken.html. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy get their heads in the game and ask: do hockey superstitions really work? Discussion topics include voting as an act of teen rebellion, octopus symbolism, and an ethically questionable use of research methods. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy could be talking about literally anything in this wide world of Oasis-free topics, but instead they’re asking: how frequently is Wonderwall really played on acoustic guitar? Discussion topics include virtually every musician that is not Oasis, pretending to have ever enjoyed Franzen, the Pokemon Go of research studies, and Abby’s illustrious musical past. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy get back to their linguistics roots and spend over an hour asking: Does the social media you use affect how you interpret the semantic content of a hashtag? Discussion topics include being too old to understand the #Youth, explaining Reddit to your academic adviser, code blending on the internet, and hashtagging words good. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

Abby and Amy ask: do people born in the suburbs tend to settle in cities more often than average and vice versa? Discussion topics include being pop punk in high school, Abby introducing Amy to the world’s truest piece of art, and ultra-cool dwarves. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science.

In the flagship episode of More Research Required, Abby and Amy give up on making a research methods podcast and make five Hunger Games fancasts instead while asking the question: Does your birth order have an effect on your opinion of Katniss’s initial sacrifice in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games? Discussion topics include unabashedly cash-grabbing taglines, Suzanne Collins’ sibling revenge, the debatable value of the mean, and deep psychosocial analysis of the Hunger Games series. Our music is Marie Curie by The Crypts!, from the album Discover Science. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Crypts_1935/Discover_Science/The_Crypts_-_02_-_Marie_Curie