Entries from April 1, 2008 - May 1, 2008
HOW DOES THAT GO? WORKING HARD OR…..? (Part 2)
Only Massachusetts requires police details at road work sites. Boston drivers are from Massachusetts. Coincidence? DrivingLikeAss.Com continues its study of the dual phenomena which are Boston: Police road-work details and Boston drivers.
Combining innovative technology with creative research design, DLA develops a psycho-motor test measurement of police detail impact on Boston motorists. Using the Galvanic Skin Sensitivity Index (GASSI) meter—a device that measures electrical conductivity
on the surface of the skin to generate a numeric value of the relative “nervousness” of the subject—and the Foot-Leg Attenuation and Latency Normative Comparison (FLATULNC) meter to produce a reaction time score, the Sensate Balanced Derivative (SBD) DLA research finds that police details at road construction sites have virtually no effect on the behavior of Boston drivers.
The new DLA Labs study, Traffic Authority Figures & Their Effectiveness in the Modification of Ass-like Driving Behavior: A DLA Research Study, points to a possible sensory cortex dysfunction among Boston drivers. On the other hand, it could also be that they just like driving like ass.
JWD
in Police details, public safety, MassCop, Boston Globe, Peter Demarco
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AND NOW, IN THE “ANY PUBLICITY IS GOOD PUBLICITY” DEPARTMENT….
In which the DLA Research staff feels unappreciated and misunderstood, but learns a valuable lesson about the power of printed word!
Things got a little heated last week here at the DrivingLikeAss Labs following the publication of Pete DeMarco’s otherwise laudatory column, Who Taught YOU to Drive? ,in the March 30 Boston Globe. The research staff grumbled through DeMarco’s description of their efforts to bring academic rigor to the study of Boston driving behavior as “tongue-in-cheek” and “under the guise of.” They were even willing to let the “you might actually believe them” crack slip. But what really got them steamed were the quotes attributed to DLA’s spokesperson, Jonathan Dower, in which he took single-handed and unabashed credit for everything from DLA’s inception and mission to the actual research itself.
“It’s bad enough that he makes himself look like the DLA braintrust,,” crabbed one researcher, “but you woulda thought he could throw the real workers a bone….you know, like mentioning the hours we spend doing exit interviews at the RMV, which, by the way, he made us do on our lunch breaks!”
JWD
in Police details, traffic safety, MassCop, Boston Globe, Peter Demarco, Who taught you to drive?
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