2012-04-15
Explanation
This comic depicts a first date between a bespectacled man and a woman, where the man compulsively corrects every piece of pop psychology his date mentions. When she says she is more of a Type-A personality, he shouts "WRONG" and explains that the Type-A/Type-B framework is not accepted by modern science and comes from a non-double-blind study of a small all-male group. When she mentions being a visual learner, he again declares "WRONG" and explains that the "modes of learning" theory is unsubstantiated. When she asks if he is more right-brained or left-brained, he yells "WRONG AGAIN" and debunks the notion that certain learning types happen only in one hemisphere.
The woman finally asks if he always does this on first dates. He begins to say he has been skeptical since he was little, but then interrupts himself with yet another "WRONG" -- this time debunking his own claim by noting that long-term memories, especially childhood ones, are likely to be incorrect. The comic shows him to be so committed to scientific accuracy that he cannot even let his own nostalgic self-narrative go unchallenged.
Despite the social disaster, the final panel shows the two of them in bed together, with the man declaring it the best sex of his life, only for the woman to note that this is statistically unlikely for first sexual encounters. She has turned his own pedantic tendencies back on him. The comic is a love story for insufferable know-it-alls who find each other. The votey shows the comic'''s author (depicted as a bearded figure) with "Hatemail goggles engaged," anticipating angry emails from readers who believe in the pop psychology concepts the comic debunked.