Jennifer Mccreight (blaghag) the inventor of BoobQuake has set-up a store to sell BoobQuake apparel, with profits going to charity. No, not “BoobQuake Relief”, but Red Cross and the James Randi Educational Foundation.
Jennifer has posted her results over at her Blag Hag blog.
Each data point represents the total number of earthquakes per day going back to February 5th (the extent of the online database). Days are measured in Coordinated Universal Time. That red square is boobquake. As you can see qualitatively, our provocative dress didn’t really seem to effect the frequency of earthquakes. There were 47 earthquakes on the 26th, which falls well within the 95% confidence interval for number of earthquakes (about 0 to 148).
So did our cleavage/thighs/ankles/hair increase the number of earthquakes? No.
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The Daily Mail from England, is already wondering if the BookQuake caused the Taiwan Tremor
Did ‘Boobquake’ Facebook group spark Taiwan tremor? New ‘evidence’ for cleric who claimed baring of cleavage causes earthquakes
Read more: Mail Online
CNN’s Monday’s Intriguing people included Gov Jan Brewer and of course Jennifer McCreight!
Jennifer McCreight
The Purdue University student wants to test an Iranian cleric’s claim that immodestly dressed and promiscuous women cause earthquakes. WLFI-TV in West Lafayette, Indiana, reports that by Friday morning, more than 80,000 people had signed up on Facebook for “Boobquake.”
McCreight’s idea is that women should wear immodest clothing on Monday to confront the cleric.
“I think a good way to do that is sometimes through humor. If I would have seriously addressed him, I probably would have never gotten a response, but lighthearted mockery could be a good tactic,” she explained.
Iranian cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi earlier this month said, “Many women who do not dress modestly … lead young men astray … which increases earthquakes.”
McCreight, a genetics and evolution major, says she wants to perform good science to counter the cleric’s bad science.
She said, “I’m going to compare the frequency and severity of the earthquakes on the 26th [Monday] to earthquakes previously to that and see if there is a statistical difference.”
