While I am fussing with my receipts and trying to catch up on e-mail, Anomie and others are using Google to develop a sociology of regret (HT: Belle). I think if they expand to more verbs they might have enough material for a paper.
UPDATE: Someone on Yahoo answers did a search that is my 2×2 Table Of The Day:
I SHOULDN’T have slept with HER: 7
I SHOULD have slept with HER: 9
I SHOULDN’T have slept with HIM: 377
I SHOULD have slept with HIM: 14
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What can I say, we’re just that
obsesseddedicated. Dan’s even come up with a clever title:“The Gender of Regret: A Tale of Two Kisses”
At least, I think that’s what it was. I accidentally deleted all the text messages from my phone…
I SHOULDN’T have slept with HER: 7
I SHOULD have slept with HER: 9
I SHOULDN’T have slept with HIM: 377
I SHOULD have slept with HIM: 14
Put this in the paper with the caption, “Table Passes F-test even as most Individuals fail it.”
What about the null outcome: I’m just as happy I didn’t sleep with her/him, I’m happy I did sleep with her/him?
For the record, it appears that those sleeping with men (women or otherwise) were 34.6 times more likely to regret doing so than those sleeping with women.
Kieran, that is brilliant!
And also, Anomie, that was the title I suggested.
We could start a whole line of google-based research on failures in decision making…