Apparently some companies in the UK are trying to market today as the most depressing day of the year. Meanwhile, today was the first day this year all of Finland had a sunrise. Take that for depressing!
@liw The UK campaign is a bit of an unfortunate coincidence given that it is observed as Martin Luther King Jr. day in the USA.
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@bremner @liw It's abullshit piece of "research", you know the kind - with an equation with a bunch of _very_ poorly defined variables in it, which claims to measure/calculate something that has absolutely in no way been quantified.
The "Blue Monday" pseudo-equation nonsense gets trotted out every year.
@bremner @liw https://www.badscience.net/2014/01/blue-monday-is-churnalism-heres-me-shouting-about-it-at-npr-on-the-media/#more-3118