I see there's one more problem with thinker sculpture study, that has nothing to do how we analyze the data. There was another study a while ago, where a dime w

I see there's one more problem with thinker sculpture study, that has nothing to do how we analyze the data. There was another study a while ago, where a dime was placed (or not placed for control group) in the public copying machine. And then researchers would ask those people who were using that copying machine a few questions, one of them was "on a scale from 0 to 10 how happy you are?" People who found their dimes reported significantly higher happiness scores, but I don't remember by how much. Assuming this experiment was true, and not some journalists twisting the data wihtout understanding statistics, I see there's some analogy with the sculpture study. In particular, the conclusion I would make is that asking people questions about happiness or religion or anything whatsoever doesn't tell you much about their actual believes, since their answers are heavily affected by their mood at the moment. I asume this statement can be turned into another study verifying its correctness, and then after we collect the results, we'd have to start arguing about Bayes vs. Fischer all over again...