Bumper stickers = road rage

[Russian]

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080613/full/news.2008.889.html
...or so nature article says. Frankly, I don't see any reality in that article. I've seen none "spiffied up" with equal or more rage than a beat up car with "Obama for change" stickers.

[Maverick]

So bumper sticker folks were a whopping 16% suspected to be likely to be engaged in road rage. What is the percentage of error in the study and how large was it? An article based on a "study" that does not provide details of the study  is just editorializing.   

[slipknot]

Not sure about the 16% being a significant statistics, but what I do know is that people with Kerry/Edwards stickers should all be awarded free bottles of rubbing alcohol and scraping implements.

[myelo]

So bumper sticker folks were a whopping 16% suspected to be likely to be engaged in road rage. What is the percentage of error in the study and how large was it? An article based on a "study" that does not provide details of the study  is just editorializing.   

They provided the reference, including a link to the published study. That describes the materials including the statistics. For example:

Participants with no territory markers had lower aggression ratings (M = 3.56, SD = 2.23) than did participants who reported territory markers (M = 4.67, SD = 2.95). Consistent with Hypothesis 2, using an ANCOVA with sex as a covariate, presence of territory markers was found to be a significant predictor of aggression, F(1, 167) = 4.64, p < .05, η2 = .03. Participant sex was not related to aggression, F(1, 167) = 1.47, p > .05, η2 = .01.

See?

[AKIron]

Obviously bumper stickers are hate speech and must be outlawed immediately.

[hubsonfire]

[Maverick]

That is nice but hardly definitive for the basics of the study. If the study was taken at a cowboy bar parking lot or a biker hangout it would certainly skew the results as far as the study was concerned. Same thing if they took the study at a downtown park in san francisco.

Demographics selection is critical for validity.

[hubsonfire]

I can't view the linked article, but this article from the Washington Post ran in the local paper Tuesday. I also noticed this article on bumper stickers while searching for the first link. Now, one was run on a simulator, which isn't very impressive to me, while the other used one real world situation, although it doesn't specify where or for how long. Not very impressive either.

[mg1942]

fine samples

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bumper-sticker-gallery-2/869838/

[Masherbrum]

I think bumper stickers are merely the opiate of the confused. 

[AWMac]

Like the one I seen recently in Texas?

"I Brake for Ukrainian Babes"

 

Mac

[moot]

"Imagine healthcare, not warfare"

[Rich46yo]

I used to have a PETA one that read, "People for the Eating of Tasty Animals". That and with all my bowhunting and hunting stickers on my truck, NRA stickers...ect I would get a kick out of the flag burning, whale saving, Nobel society crowd that would drive past frothing at the mouth. Best was when I scored my first "eater" of the season and would have a nice fat doe in the truck bed.