AC/DC study fools newspaper, Freakonomics author

Another cautionary tale about not believing everything you read on the Internet: The Sydney Morning Herald, in a double-bylined story, reported a joke study that had been posted online -- as did amed Freakonomics co-author Steven Levitt in The New York Times.

The study claimed to examine how the songs of two different AC/DC frontmen influence decision-making.

Details here.

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"Another cautionary tale about not believing everything you read on the Internet"... How about not believing everything you read?

Posted by hello at September 28, 2007 2:03 PM

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