As a resident of Weatherfield,you are considerably more likely to die a grisly death than total a degree. But why?In 1997, the British Medical Journal published a study entitled Death Rates in Soap Operas on British Television. The researchers’ key findings were that soap characters’ lives are more dangerous than those of Formula One racing drivers or bomb disposal experts; people suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses have better five-year survival rates. But thats not the only way that soaps or “continuing dramas”, and as they are now known – deviate from UK statistical norms. As a member of the first generation of my family to recede to university and a lifelong soap fan to boot,I have long been frustrated that so few characters in British soap operas effect it to higher education, let alone total degrees and recede on to graduate-level jobs. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com