{"id":6927,"date":"2015-02-11T22:51:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T02:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=6927"},"modified":"2015-02-11T22:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T02:51:38","slug":"stanford-studies-tendency-of-people-who-vacation-together-in-italy-to-have-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/stanford-studies-tendency-of-people-who-vacation-together-in-italy-to-have-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford studies tendency of people who vacation together in Italy to have sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental challenge for today: A rich 29-year-old\u00a0guy invites a 21-year-old fashion model and college undergraduate to go on an all-expenses paid vacation with him to Italy where they will be sharing a luxury hotel room. She accepts the invitation. Are they likely to have sex?<\/p>\n<p>This question is being investigated by the 10 lb. heads of Stanford University, with the help of one of the world&#8217;s most expensive law firms, Pillsbury (disclosure: I have served as an expert witness in Delaware Chancery Court for a Pillsbury client; Pillsbury won the case so apparently they are worth whatever they&#8217;re charging).<\/p>\n<p>This question also merits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/15\/magazine\/the-stanford-undergraduate-and-the-mentor.html\">an epic-length New York Times magazine article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do readers think?\u00a0Can a society survive when some\u00a0of its best educated people are occupied with this kind of investigation?\u00a0What does it mean when the editors of a major newspaper think that this is newsworthy?<\/p>\n<p>My idea for Stanford&#8217;s next research inquiry: Do visitors to Las Vegas tend to drink and gamble?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental challenge for today: A rich 29-year-old\u00a0guy invites a 21-year-old fashion model and college undergraduate to go on an all-expenses paid vacation with him to Italy where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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