research ideas

Ok now to jot down some research ideas. I think it would be really fun if i could do some kind of research to compare the amount of time it takes to write a message in Chinese or Japanese to the amount of time it takes to write it in english. you would have to give each kanji and each letter of the english alphabet a certain value of time that it takes to write and add them up to compare which takes longer. there are so many variables though, they’re different languages so they wouldn’t be in the same format or arrangement, they wouldn’t be produced by the same thought processes. You would have to make sure they are direct translations as well, that they both mean exactly the same thing, something I think you really cannot accomplish in translation. and once we get results, what would we do with the information? ok we figured out that it takes longer to write in Japanese, what are we going to do go to Japan and tell them, “Hey, guys, this whole Japanese thing you guys are doin, no good… Here, look at this, according to our results, English is a much more efficient language to write, so, why don’t you guys start writing in english since it’s better.” Yeah so i’m not sure how we would use the data for something useful once we figured out the results.

I would also like to do a study on determing someone’s intelligence by observing whether or not they are prone to wearing hats, specifically and solely baseball caps. I have noticed that just about everyone that I hang out with or like to hang out with never wear baseball caps. Incidentally, alot of people i don’t like do wear baseball caps. So i thought that was a very interesting correlation and i wonder if there were someway i could make this into a research project. How would i be able to compare one’s intelligence over the other? I guess I could do a survey asking people wearing baseball caps to record their gpa and also their past discrepencies with the law, and compare them with random people i ask that are not wearing hats. ok bye