Well, as Jamie said denting a car in such a manner wouldn't creat the consistant dimples in the surface required for the myth to work. So get yourself a few hundred pounds of clay and a large kiln...
Mythbusters: Dirty vs. Clean Car
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Well, as Jamie said denting a car in such a manner wouldn't creat the consistant dimples in the surface required for the myth to work. So get yourself a few hundred pounds of clay and a large kiln...
^But does it have to be dimples? There are other ways to create a texture like that -- maybe some kind of netting over the surface of the car, as I suggested.
Another thing would be what constitutes a worse hangover. For me, the headache is the worst part so Tory actually confirms the myth for me a bit. I could care less what my reaction time is but if my head's throbbing stay away from me.
It's hard to quantify pain.
But scientificly "what is" a 1? "What is" a 10? It's an arbitray number that carries no real meaning. A "6" for Tori might be a "10" for Grant and that number isn't backed-up by anything. The other tests they did at least had some scientific merit mehind them, numbers or effects that could be measured and observed.
^^I was just being facetious, I get your point, but while his "9" might not be my "9" I think we can assume it hurts more than his "6", the scale is probably reasonably useful in measuring his own subjective feeling.
^Yeah... the scale's only useful for comparisons within a single person's experiences -- is this headache worse for you than the one you had two days ago? It would be useless to compare two different people's subjective headache ratings.
See, even then I'm not so sure. How do you measure pain as a number? What is a "nine"? How do you know it's "worse" than the pain from the other day?
I suffer from cluster-headaches, when I was being diagnosed with them my doctor asked me to rate the headaches on the 1-10 scale. I told her "A billion." Because they really, really, really, realy suck.
The only way I can think of to "measure" a headache would be to use some-sort-of headscan which brings into play an MRI or maybe (more reasonably) a ultrasound but neither are probably all-that practical.
So I guess the subjective use of the "1-10 scale" would have to do for measuring headaches. Even though it's not very accurate.
^I don't think an MRI would work for headaches, because headaches aren't felt in the brain, which has no pain receptors. They're caused by things like muscle tension, sinus pressure, various other causes. And since they do have multiple causes, it would be hard to devise a consistent measuring device for them.
Ah, we get this episode on Monday...
But, if you're feeling pain it seems to me some area of the brain would be more active than if you were not feeling pain.
^But that's a pretty indirect way of measuring headaches, I'd think. Not to mention that the noise and stress of getting an MRI would probably make a headache worse. There's got to be a simpler way. The ultrasound suggestion someone made might be good for some types of headaches, since maybe it could reveal pressure increases, changes in blood flow, things like that.
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