{"id":13,"date":"2005-01-07T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2005-01-07T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/01\/07\/email-flurries\/"},"modified":"2005-01-07T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2005-01-07T13:04:06","slug":"email-flurries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/01\/07\/email-flurries\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Flurries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a40'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>I&#8217;ve been inundated with emails this week.&nbsp; Which is great (because, as y&#8217;all know, I love emails), except that most of the emails were from female&nbsp;friends who were perturbed by an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2087-1423032,00.html\">article<\/a> I sent&nbsp;concerning a study on the relationship between marriage and IQs.&nbsp; In my opinion, the most salient statistic is the study&#8217;s&nbsp;finding that&nbsp;there&#8217;s a 35% increase in the likelihood of marriage for each 16-point rise in IQ for boys, whereas for girls, there&#8217;s a 40% drop for each 16-point increase (and no, I couldn&#8217;t get ahold of the actual study so I&#8217;m not sure how these statistics are calculated).&nbsp; I had thought it was&nbsp;interesting, but I apparently ruined a few people&#8217;s weeks and started&nbsp;several other&nbsp;people on a downward spiral of self-analysis and doubt. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve already sent out my round of apologetic emails, so I&#8217;ll skip that in this post.&nbsp; However, I thought I would share the best response I received, which was that &#8220;at least on days when you&#8217;re feeling stupid at work and completely incapable of&nbsp;doing the task you&#8217;ve just been assigned, you can take comfort in the fact that maybe you are marriagable after all.&#8221;&nbsp; So on that note, I&#8217;m off to work!&nbsp; Happy Friday all!&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Oh, and for any guys reading this, I promise more guy-friendly subjects next week.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I have no idea what those subject would be, so if you have any&nbsp;suggestions, shoot me an email.&nbsp; Otherwise, you may&nbsp;be subjected to a post about the new black purse I&#8217;m planning to buy and whether I should also buy a gold clutch to match the gold shoes I rarely wear (in part because I don&#8217;t have a gold clutch &#8211; such a consumer&nbsp;catch-22).&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>One more thing &#8211; my diet is going really well, thank you for asking.&nbsp; Went running this morning despite the storm!&nbsp; Yes, my gym is indoors.&nbsp; Whatever.&nbsp; Anyways, also read a&nbsp;cute quote on dieting\/excercise today:&nbsp; &#8220;I&#8217;m desperately trying to get to the weight I was when I thought I was fat.&#8221; <\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been inundated with emails this week.&nbsp; Which is great (because, as y&#8217;all know, I love emails), except that most of the emails were from female&nbsp;friends who were perturbed by an article I sent&nbsp;concerning a study on the relationship between marriage and IQs.&nbsp; In my opinion, the most salient statistic is the study&#8217;s&nbsp;finding that&nbsp;there&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}