There's been a series of papers on the unsuccessful treatment of writers block, of which the most recent appears to be this one:
Unsuccessful treatments of "writer's block": a meta-analysis. Authors Mclean DC <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=Mclean%20DC%5BAuthor%5D>1, Thomas BR <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=Thomas%20BR%5BAuthor%5D>. Author information <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25153962/#> Journal Psychol Rep. 2014 Aug;115(1):276-8. doi: 10.2466/28.PR0.115c12z0. Epub 2014 Jun 24. Affiliation Abstract A wide literature of the unsuccessful treatment of writer's block has emerged since the early 1970's. Findings within this literature seem to confer generalizability of this procedure; however, small sample sizes may limit this interpretation. This meta-analysis independently analyzed effect sizes for "self-treatments" and "group-treatments" using number of words in the body of the publication as indication of a failure to treat writer's block. Results of the reported findings suggest that group-treatments tend to be slightly more unsuccessful than self-treatments. On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, John Mull <jm...@weber.edu> wrote: > Though not from the primary literature, here's another paper in this > category that I first saw referenced in Joel Cohen's *How Many People Can > the Earth Support*: > > Fremlin, J.H. 1964. How many people can the world support. New Scientist 24 > (29 October): 285 - 287. > > > http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13518297.500-letters-packing-them-in.html > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Gregor Kalinkat <kalin...@igb-berlin.de > <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > > There are a couple of papers out there on modelling disease dynamics with > > Zombie and/or Vampire etc attacks > > > > e.g. > > http://www.math.upenn.edu/~ted/203S10/Projects/Zombies/Zombies.pdf > > > > > > > http://www.m-hikari.com/ams/ams-2013/ams-9-12-2013/strielkowskiAMS9-12-2013.pdf > > > > enjoy! > > > > °°° > > Dr. Gregor Kalinkat > > email: gregor.kalin...@eawag.ch <javascript:;> > > skype: gregor.kalinkat > > > > Postdoctoral research fellow > > > > Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) > > Department Fish Ecology and Evolution > > Theoretical Evolutionary Ecosystem Ecology Lab > > Seestrasse 79 > > 6047 Kastanienbaum > > Switzerland > > > > Personal website: http://goo.gl/ztVSm8 > > Google Scholar profile: http://goo.gl/RI0a5 > > Working group at Eawag: http://goo.gl/Lw2AQ8 > > B-Types project at the IGB: www.b-types.igb-berlin.de > > > > > > ________________________________________ > > Von: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [ > > ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU <javascript:;>]" im Auftrag von > "David Inouye [ > > ino...@umd.edu <javascript:;>] > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. März 2015 18:31 > > Bis: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU <javascript:;> > > Betreff: Re: [ECOLOG-L] humorous papers > > > > Here's one of them. I used to use this in ecology classes. > > > > > > Sheldon, R. W., and S. R. Kerr. 1972. The population density of > > Monsters in Loch Ness. Limnology and Oceanography 17:746-798. > > > > > > I think there was one about resource partitioning among fast food > > restaurants that was published in the Bulletin of the ESA about 30 > > years ago but I don't have the citation. > > > > David Inouye > > > > At 11:00 AM 3/24/2015, you wrote: > > > > > > I'm looking for funny articles published and a few come to mind that I > > can't remember citations for so I thought I'd ask here. I don't really > > want to page through J. Irreproducable Results or Worm Runner's Digest > but > > there are a few I'm hoping someone can help me with (vice vis pdfs) > > > > In either the late 70's or 80's there was a note in Nature that comprised > > the poem and reviewers comments on Shelley's *"Ozymandias*" > > > > Then at about the same time someone published a paper in Limn. & Ocean. > > estimating the biomass of the Loch Ness monster. > > > > And also at some point someone published a satirical paper on "if no one > > heard it, did the tree in the forest really fall?" > > > > Of course any other humorous gems would be appreciated. > > Please remember the list doesn't allow attachments, so please respond to > my > > university email. > > > > TIA, g2 > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Gary D. Grossman, PhD > > > > Professor of Animal Ecology > > Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources > > University of Georgia > > Athens, GA, USA 30602 > > > > http://grossman.myweb.uga.edu/ < http://www.arches.uga.edu/%7Egrossman> > > > > Board of Editors - Animal Biodiversity and Conservation > > Editorial Board - Freshwater Biology > > Editorial Board - Ecology Freshwater Fish > > > -- Jon
