[bshipp]

This explanation isn't nearly as fun as all the wild speculation we're all posting below you.

+1 for actually hunting down the original study and interpreting it.

-1000 for spoiling our self-righteous party.

[notus]

Actually they didn't read it well

[bshipp]

They read it well enough to generate a testable hypothesis about the underlying data. He or she should be commended, not criticized.

Even with the resulting edit there appears to be, at least to me, a clear need for additional investigation utilizing non-Norwegian conscription data before the original research question can be validated.

[precisioncoder]

True enough, however through my mistakes we have established that all self righteous theorizing should take into account that the data is pre-smartphone ;)