For Goodness' Sake? Santa Delivers for Both Naughty and Nice Kids, Study Finds

It turns out that it's not whether kids are naughty or nice that determines if Santa pays them a visit on Christmas. Rather, socioeconomic factors appear to make the difference when Santa Claus plans his Christmas route, a new study from the United Kingdom finds. In the study, published Dec. 14 in the annual Christmas issue of the BMJ, which is a tongue-in-cheek edition of the medical journal that normally publishes serious research, the researchers wanted to figure out why Santa visited some of