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GARDAÍ ARE APPEALING for witnesses to a road crash in Galway in the early hours of this morning after one of the drivers failed to remain at the scene.
The collision, which involved a motorcycle and another vehicle, occurred on Gort Road in Loughrea at 2.10am today.
The driver of the motorcycle, a man in his 50s, and the pillion passenger, a woman aged in her 30s, were both taken to University Hospital Galway for treatment of serious injuries. The driver of the other vehicle failed to remain at the scene.
A technical examination of the scene is now underway and local diversions are in place.
Gardaí are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this collision or anyone with information to come forward to them.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Loughrea Garda Station on 091 842870, the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111 or any garda station.
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I have so many problems with this study I hardly know where to start.
Firstly, not only the US bias, but the focusing on what is probably a sector of the population rather than the population as a whole. It looks as if there a hella lot of Republican voters out there.
And relating emotional stability to interest in sport looks highly dubious to me. Sporting activity is a highly focused, demanding discipline. Following it requires a focus that borders on monomania which is not conducive to “sanity”. Football, athletics and cycling require focus and dedication. Of course perhaps sports *fans* are like that. But the unacknowledged high levels of depression in sport (Collymore, Speed etc) leads me to believe that something in their study is flawed.
And when it comes to “gender”, well I want to bang my head repeatedly off a wall. It appears clear to me from examining the word cloud that gender is a constructed concept. I love the way “government” and “country” go into the “male” – because girlies don’t give a toss how we’re governed as long as our nails look nice, right.
This is a simplistic portrait that insults sportspeople by calling them emotionally stable (which is nothing more than a euphemism for “unimaginative” most of the time) it insults emotionally unstable people by putting them in a box, it insults men, women, Americans and non-Americans. Epic Fail.
Yes. Very insulting all round. This study does not represent me as a person or a user of facebook. I am more than words. Very poor study.
I like all the points you make but I’m not sure if their study is ‘flawed’ exactly. I think it is simply the beginning of an interesting area of study. I totally agree with you that their “claims” are over the top and simplistic but I can’t believe they think they have “proved” anything but it’s an interesting start.
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Wow, you make it a partisan issue. Great job.
How can this be a serious study when there are no cute first baby pics in any of these clouds??
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So a persons behaviour gives you a good chance of guessing their personality type?
No way.
hahahahaha its true !!! and even looking at the words “fight” “battle” “football” means msot likey a man and “boyfriend” “clothes” msot likely a girl,you dont have to be a detective to figure it out !!
I hate sports. America and its sporty bias. You must be definitely unstable emotionally if you don’t like sport, what a load of garbageeee.
Actually Stephen, that’s not what either the article above or the report states. I’ll slightly exaggerate it so you may understand better: those who put up sports related status updates tend, based on the survey group, to be more stable. It doesn’t suggest you have to have an interest in sport to be stable.
I wonder who funded this…..Facebook *cough*
;) i see what you did..Calpol ;)
The fact that we’re here talking about the study is all the incentive a university needs to shoe-horn a popular platform like Facebook into a study.
All the coverage makes the department looks good.
So sports fans tend to be more emotionally stable than non sports fans?
Seeing as how most sports fans are male it’s hardly surprising….
And the higher suicide rate is amongst males… (sorry to bring that up, not actually point scoring but pointing out that while a man may appear emotionally stable that is often not the case). This ‘study’ is rubbish in so many ways. People edit themselves and project a persona when on the net, often hiding their real emotions or thoughts because they are afraid of being judged so the results are flawed.
I dunno, there’s some sports fans who are far from “emotionally stable” otherwise there would be no such thing as football hooliganism.. I will never understand two or more grown men physically fighting over a football team none of them is or ever will be a member of..
They’re not fighting over football, same as they’re not fighting over religion in the north, much more to do with tribalism, the football match is just a place for them to vent their frustration/anger. Where as the genuine supporter or the guy playing is involved in the experience and will most likely get satisfaction from the release of emotion around the actual match……….
Now let me think … Why would Facebook conduct this analysis? Figuring out more targeted marketing / advertising perhaps?
Meh
And can the same be said for fake profiles.
I understand that the researchers could access people’s gender and age, but what way did they ascertain people as having baseline extroversion or neuroticism? They surely can’t figure that out without a correlating independent psychological assessment? Mystery of the missing data.
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Time to update status?
I read this yesterday… on Broadsheet.
More Yankee bullshit!
Haha so stupid. According to this researcher I’m 15 years old even if I’m 40.
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