AND I STILL THINK the nuttiest think of all is to apply power and pull up when you get the shaker, instead of accepting the altitude loss and getting right out of the stall.
In IMC at low altitude (approach phase) unless you know the airport like the back of your hand, loosing more altitude to unstall the aircraft seems a very unlogical and risky (read terrifiying) procedure in the heat of that moment. The instintive fear of hitting high terrain or some other landmark may lead people to desperatly try to climb away to a safer altitude, so their automatic reaction is to firewall the engines and (wrongly) pull up. It's like they perceive this situation like a "Terrain Terrain Pull Up" GPWS warning, when the sequence of recovery is, if I got it right, the opposite: let it drop enough to stop shaker, apply power and then fly the plane to where it should have been.