CHICAGO—In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.

"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz, who based the findings on hundreds of telephone, office, and dinner-party conversations compiled over a three-year period. "While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our resarch shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them."

In 2002, Fultz's team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that sexual orientation has a real effect on how we perform mental tasks such as navigating with a map in a car but that old age does not discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation and withers all men’s minds alike just ahead of women’s.

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However for a number of tasks the University of Warwick researchers found key differences across the range of sexual orientations studied.

For instance in mental rotation (a task where men usually perform better) they found that the table of best performance to worst was:
Heterosexual men
Bisexual men
Homosexual men
Homosexual women
Bisexual women
Heterosexual women

In general, over the range of tasks measured, where a gender performed better in a task heterosexuals of that gender tended to perform better than non-heterosexuals. When a particular gender was poorer at a task homosexual and bisexual people tended to perform better than heterosexual members of that gender.

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Article: "Gender and Sexual Orientation Differences in Cognition Across Adulthood: Age Is Kinder to Women than to Men Regardless of Sexual Orientation"Archives of Sexual Behaviour, April 2007 DOI 10.1007/s10508-006-9155-y

Research into the levels of homophobia on the streets of the UK's gayest city has revealed that three-quarters of gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans residents residents have been on the receiving end of physical or verbal abuse in the last five years.

A new report says gay, lesbian and bisexual teens in British Columbia face more violence and health problems than heterosexuals.

The report was prepared by University of B.C. researcher Elizabeth Saewyc and released by the McCreary Center Society of Vancouver.

The survey found that gay, lesbian and bisexual teens were up to three times as likely to suffer physical and sexual abuse or harassment in school, as well as discrimination.

Members of the same group are also three times as likely to have become pregnant or gotten someone pregnant.

Members of the same group are also three times as likely to have become pregnant or gotten someone pregnant.

You mean... teenage gays, lesbians and bisexuals are more fertile than STRAIGHTS??? Sounds little credible to me.

Members of the same group are also three times as likely to have become pregnant or gotten someone pregnant.

(New York City) A study of diversity in the workplace has found that 28 percent of LGBT employees have suffered harassment in the workplace with nearly half describing it as severe.

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Thirty percent of African Americans reported discrimination at work, as did 29 percent of Hispanics. With the margin of error both groups were tied with LGBT workers.

The study showed that the gay, lesbian and bisexual population was more than twice as likely as the heterosexual population to have used marijuana over the last year; nearly four times as likely to have used amphetamines on a regular basis in the previous 12 months; more than four times as likely to have used LSD over a year: and more than three times as likely to have regularly used ecstasy over the same period. Over 42 per cent of them said they smoked regularly compared 27.7 per cent of heterosexual respondents.

Lead researcher, Frank Pega is presenting the findings to the annual conference of the Public Health Association and says this is the first comprehensive evidence that differences do exist between the groups.

“The implication is that there needs to be health promotion targeted specifically at the gay, lesbian and bisexual community,“ he says.

Were our intrepid scholar to make inquiries, I think he would find that Gays also consume 2 times as much cake as straights, 3 times as much candy [..]

maybe join the Lesbians on a hike through the mountains.

It is well-known that the simple and gullible bears do not steal bear.

in what ways do Lesbians and straight women differ in the making and consumption of S'mores?

But do they steal beer?!

A black bear went on a binge at a campsite in the US state of Washington - guzzling down some 36 cans of beer. Campground workers were stunned to come across the bear sleeping off the effects in their grounds, surrounded by dozens of empty beer cans.

But this was no ordinary case of a bear with a sore head at Baker Lake resort, 80 miles (129km) northeast of Seattle. He had apparently tried out and rejected the mass-market Busch beer in favour of local brand Rainier.

The bear appeared to have got into campers' cool boxes and used his teeth and claws to puncture the cans. Fish and wildlife enforcement Sgt Bill Heinck said the bear tried one can of Busch and ignored the rest - then got stuck into three dozen cans of Rainier.

"We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around," camp worker Lisa Broxson was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying.

She said the bear was chased away by wildlife agents, but returned the next day. The agents decided to trap the bear with doughnuts, honey and, of course, two cans of Rainier beer. It did the trick and he was captured.

I mean... berto might not be 'berto. He might be some species of nefarious sock-puppet. Something may have happened to 'berto... something too horrible to put into words... something involving sasquatches... and this creature berto has taken his place. Hmmmmm?