From the missing-the-point department:
A Missouri university did a series of tests to measure the rates at which different kinds of socks maintain moisture and abrade surfaces.
Their stated reason was laudable: they wanted to find the composition that causes the fewest blisters when playing games such as basketball.
Had they gone to any schoolyard pickup game, they’d know that basketball players always put on two pairs of socks, one over the other. That way the friction is between the sliding layers of sock, and not between the sock and the skin.
Not to say that the study results doesn’t have some value. But I’m going no further. As an occasional writer of humor, this is like shooting mackerel in a Tupperware glass. I have my standards.