Salt Passage and Causal Inference 

 I'm guessing many of the readers of this blog will get a kick out of this article, which I received in a Research Methodology class I am taking with Prof. Richard Hackman of the Psychology Department.   

  M. Pacanowsky - "Please Pass the Salt: Examining the Motivational Variables, Idiosyncratic Dynamics, and Historical Precedents Associated With the Utterance," The Washington Post (4/9/78)