Communal teaspoons are critically endangered, study reveals.
Elizabeth Fernandez via Getty ImagesThe real enigma, anyone with a kitchen knows, is where all the damn teaspoons went.shared a study that confirmed what we could have all guessed; even the best scientific minds struggle to work out where the cagey cutlery go.
Thus, in 2005, ”The Case of the Disappearing Teaspoons: Longitudinal Cohort Study of the Displacement of Teaspoons in an Australian Research Institute”The objective? “To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom,” the published paper reads.
. No control group, such as a wooden stirrer-only kitchen, was involved. I suspect this is due to ethical concerns.“A search of the medical and other scientific literature through Google, Google Scholar, and Medline using the keywords ‘teaspoon’, ‘spoon’, ‘workplace’, ‘loss’ and ‘attrition’ revealed nothing about the phenomenon of teaspoon loss.
“Five potentially lost teaspoons were recovered from miscreant hoarders” at the end of the study, but “No one admitted to the permanent removal of a teaspoon from the institute, and no plausible explanations were advanced for the high rate of teaspoon loss.”technically unproven phenomenaThe cause wasn’t the focus of the study either, though this was attributed in the study to the Tragedy of the Commons. The question was WHERE they went.
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