On Friday Rush took time out of his jam packed Open Line Friday to highlight some great research advances made by a Cornell professor. Here’s the transcript from his website:
I found something here. Here’s the headline: “Larger Breasts Pay Off for Waitresses, Study by Hotel Professor Finds.” Here we go. This is from the Cornell University Daily Sun. This is far better than any Obama BS today. “Prof. Michael Lynn, marketing and tourism, surveyed 374 waitresses about their perceived ‘sexiness,’ breast size and other physical characteristics and correlated these results with the amount of tips the waitresses received. His results indicate that evolutionary instinct trumps the ideals many patrons profess. Though most customers say they reward service, Lynn reports that quality of service has less than a 2-percent effect on the actual tip. Instead, he found that waitresses with larger bra sizes received higher tips — as did women with blonde hair and slender bodies. While this may seem self-evident to some, Lynn said that ‘it’s always important to test what seems like obvious cultural wisdom.'”
I didn’t listen to the actual show that day, so it’s not clear if he was mocking the research or actually found it entertaining. Read the rest after the jump.
Oh, I’m sure he did say it’s important to test this, hands on! Hands on data here. “‘This study uses a broader array of stimuli as they appear three-dimensionally … to themselves and their customers,’ he said. Lynn explained that his study could be useful to a potential waitress as it can help gauge her ‘prospects in the industry.'” (interruption) No, that’s not the point, Snerdley. Snerdley is focused on the women here, what do you do if you’re not as well endowed? What this illustrates, Dawn’s right, most men are still paying the bill, despite feminism. Do you think this matters to a female paying the bill? Do you think the size of the waitress’s boobs matters to a woman paying the bill? Not at all. I guarantee you that’s probably 98% service. In fact, the bleach blonder the hair, the more seductive the dress, the probably less likely a woman will reward — you know this, Snerdley. It’s inherent. Yeah, there’s no question.
This reminds me way back when I was in Pittsburgh in the early seventies there was a survey, a study much like this that came out of Tufts University in Boston. Some professor there claimed to have found a correlation between bust size and IQ. The smaller the bust size, the higher the IQ. The larger the bust size, the smaller the IQ. I remember mentioning this, I read it in a New York newspaper when I was doing show prep for my radio show in Pittsburgh, and this is now in my LexisNexis database, and it’s one of the things that’s constantly pointed at as something I lie about, I just made up. I didn’t make it up. Now, remember, the early seventies, I mean we are at the birth stages of the modern era of feminism then. I tell you, this professor up at Cornell, I hope he next studies — because he’s got this hands on study on breasts and waitresses and tips, he’s got a tough job, somebody has to do it. Now what about nice legs and tips? And then after that, nice derriere and tips. I mean the opportunities here limitless for Professor Lynn at Cornell.
