On: A student's grandmother is far more likely to die ...

[vidarh]

Lighten up - it's humour satirizing students trying to get out of exams by claiming grandma died, not research.

[beerglass → vidarh]

Exactly, I get it. Wonder, why everyone here is discussing the issue seriously rather than noting the humor in the piece.

[freehunter → beerglass]

Many of the comments in here are tongue in cheek. The current top comment is incredibly so, in the same vein as the paper. Others are discussing it seriously because there are some aspects which may be true even about the joke of an article.