print email comment close The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall of American Society URL: http://www.easternct.edu/personal/faculty/adams/Resources/Grannies.pdf Description: A tongue-in-cheek "academic" paper, complete with graphs and charts, based on the observation that "a student's grandmother is far more likely to die suddenly just before the student takes an exam, than at any other time of year." By a genetics professor, who reports his observations and offers some possible remedies for the problem. Author: Adams, Mike Publisher: Eastern Connecticut State University Extra Keywords liisilly Library of Congress Subject Headings: LII classic content Wit and humor LII Database Information: Record 12132 created by Martha Gifford on 09/12/2002 Last modification on 04/18/2005 Published: 09/12/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12132