Re: [tips] The New Ig Nobel Prizes Were Handed Out! And YOU Didn't Win!

[Mike Palij]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 20:24:04 -0700, Michael Scoles wrote:

Was this a procedure used by Boring to test his "angle of regard"
hypothesis about the moon illusion?


If you are referring to the following reference, then the answer is no.

Holway, A. H., & Boring, E. G. (1940). The moon illusion and
the angle of regard. The American Journal of Psychology,
53(1), 109-116.

H had subjects standing and looking at the moon in one of
the experiments while in another they were supine, flat on their
back.  However, the latter position is probably where drunk
subjects wind up after looking at the moon too long from between
their legs.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

P.S.  If anyone is interested, H's conclusion was (quoting from
the final section:

|   The moon illusion is a function of the angle of regard as referred
|to  the body as a frame of reference. When supine position, the
|illusion remains constant and is reversed with respect to the earth.
|Thus with regard in the primary position, and smaller at the horizon
|than in culmination.6



On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Mike Palij  wrote:


When an event like the awarding of the Ig Nobel prize occurs, many,
many outlets provide coverage, so, if you ain't too lazy, you can find 
the

source you like best.  In the meantime, here's how the
BBC website covered it:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204

In summary, there are only two words that captures the nature
of the awards: Goat man.

For psychological research, here is what the BBC reports:

|Psychology Prize - Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for |asking a 
thousand

liars how often they lie, and for deciding |whether to believe those
answers.

All I can say is that I've seen worse research.

There was a prize for Perception research and, again,
quoting the BBC:

|Perception Prize - Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, |for
investigating whether things look different when you bend |over and 
view

them between your legs.

I don't know what the results were for the perception research
but I'm willing to bet that if you are bent over and looking backward
through your legs because you're drunk and just threw up (hence
being bent over), then, yeah, things would probably look different.

But I think there might be an interaction between type of perception
and whether or not one is drunk. 



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Re: [tips] The New Ig Nobel Prizes Were Handed Out! And YOU Didn't Win!

[Michael Scoles]

Was this a procedure used by Boring to test his "angle of regard"
hypothesis about the moon illusion?


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:06 PM, Mike Palij  wrote:

> When an event like the awarding of the Ig Nobel prize occurs, many,
> many outlets provide coverage, so, if you ain't too lazy, you can find the
> source you like best.  In the meantime, here's how the
> BBC website covered it:
> http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204
>
> In summary, there are only two words that captures the nature
> of the awards: Goat man.
>
> For psychological research, here is what the BBC reports:
>
> |Psychology Prize - Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for |asking a thousand
> liars how often they lie, and for deciding |whether to believe those
> answers.
>
> All I can say is that I've seen worse research.
>
> There was a prize for Perception research and, again,
> quoting the BBC:
>
> |Perception Prize - Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, |for
> investigating whether things look different when you bend |over and view
> them between your legs.
>
> I don't know what the results were for the perception research
> but I'm willing to bet that if you are bent over and looking backward
> through your legs because you're drunk and just threw up (hence
> being bent over), then, yeah, things would probably look different.
>
> But I think there might be an interaction between type of perception
> and whether or not one is drunk.
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu
>
>
>
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University of Central Arkansas
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[tips] The New Ig Nobel Prizes Were Handed Out! And YOU Didn't Win!

[Mike Palij]

When an event like the awarding of the Ig Nobel prize occurs, many,
many outlets provide coverage, so, if you ain't too lazy, you can 
find the source you like best.  In the meantime, here's how the

BBC website covered it:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37443204

In summary, there are only two words that captures the nature
of the awards: Goat man.

For psychological research, here is what the BBC reports:

|Psychology Prize - Evelyne Debey and colleagues, for 
|asking a thousand liars how often they lie, and for deciding 
|whether to believe those answers.


All I can say is that I've seen worse research.

There was a prize for Perception research and, again,
quoting the BBC:

|Perception Prize - Atsuki Higashiyama and Kohei Adachi, 
|for investigating whether things look different when you bend 
|over and view them between your legs.


I don't know what the results were for the perception research
but I'm willing to bet that if you are bent over and looking backward
through your legs because you're drunk and just threw up (hence
being bent over), then, yeah, things would probably look different.

But I think there might be an interaction between type of perception
and whether or not one is drunk.  


-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu



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[tips] Random Thought: "SLM," aka What Does Love Got To Do With It? Part III

[Louis Eugene Schmier]

As this professor exemplified, academics and emotion have a rocky 
relationship.   As a result, academia is a tough culture in which to talk of 
faith, hope, and love. Those three words are hard for some academics.  It's a 
culture that traditionally says paradoxically with great emotion that emotions 
have no place in the Ivory Tower.  Instead,it emotionally tells you that you 
must--must--be emotionless, cold, distant, impersonal, disengaged, and 
rational.  It's all encapsulated in the word, "objective."  So, too many 
academics don't know what to do with or want having to do with the persons they 
feel and judge to be a "waste of my time," "I've got better things to do," the 
"poor," the "unprepared,"  the "don't belong." and the "they're letting anyone 
in."   They ignore them, say painful things, belittle them, and do everything 
they can to weed them out.   With that attitude, they are failing the students, 
as well as themselves.   What they don't want to understand is that not 
according these students an honorable dignity and disregarding them makes 
matters only worse.  It causes them see themselves as different in a way that 
devalues them, that strips them of faith in themselves, hope for themselves, 
lowers their self-esteem and self-confidence.  And, as the research shows, 
lowers their performance levels. 

"I understand," I explained to her, "that when I talk of faith, hope, 
and love it sounds so alien to a lot of academics.  It did to me at first way 
back in the 1990s.   To some, it sounds like being a weak, ineffective, 
sentimental, 'hallmarkish' push over.  To still others it's a rabid invasion of 
an anti-rational, emotional, and subjective pestilence.  But, as Thicht Nhat 
Hanh said, we human beings 'inter-are' creatures who have a hard time 
flourishing when we feel invisible to, disconnected with, and isolated from 
others.  

"I have found that faith, hope, and love actually augments academia," I 
explained, it doesn't undermine it.  The research done by the likes of 
Rochester's Ed Deci, Standord's Carol Dweck, Harvard's Teresa Amabile, UNC's 
Barbara Fredrickson, Harvard's Daniel Goleman, UC's Sonja Lyubomirsky, 
Chicago's Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and host of others tell us that faith, hope, 
and love help create a whole new mind and heart.  Daniel Goleman calls it 'EI-- 
emotional intelligence' and 'SI--social intelligence.'  To that I added my own 
'HI--hospitality intelligence' and 'KI--kindness intelligence.' They positively 
create positive people, positive feelings, positive thoughts, positive 
experiences, and positive results.   Faith in, hope for, and love of are a 
positive audacity that nourish, that provide the impulse, that infuse the 
energizing juice to take bold actions, that instill a resiliency, that 
strengthen self-esteem and self-confidence, that help each student help herself 
or himself become the person she or he is capable of becoming, and can 
consequently improve performance."

"Permit me," I asked this professor, "to quickly let you in on a few 
little, big secrets I've learned about learning from both educating myself 
about the latest research findings and decades of experience in the classroom.  
I'll just list them and explain later if you wish me to:"   

"First, don't get stuck in sameness.  Each day is a new adventure.  
Each day is unique.  Each day is a challenge filled with opportunities and 
possibilities.  You never step into the same class twice, even if the course 
number is the same.  Change is the only constant, every moment, every day, 
every term.  The one thing that never changes that is that the end of the day 
you, others, and things will be different than they were when the day began.  
So, you never step into the same class twice, even if the course number is the 
same.  And, you never deal with the same person twice, even if her or his name 
is the same.  Dealing with that change is how we and they learn, grow, and 
change.

"Second, no one can leave her or his 'trash' at the classroom 
threshold.  What occurs outside the classroom and inside each student deeply 
impacts what goes on inside the classroom.  And, if we are truly concerned with 
what occurs inside the classroom, we must be equally concerned with what goes 
on outside the classroom and inside each student."  

"Third, as educators, we are in the people business, as much as, if not 
more, than in the information transmission, skill development, and 
credentialing business.  We have to heed Thomas Edison's assertion that the 
mind and heart of people must control what they create.  We, therefore, have to 
insure that we are graduating good people as well as good students who can live 
the good life as well as secure a good living."

"Fourth, persuasion and trust and respect always trump authority.  
Students will listen when they are inspired, not when they are demeaned and 
scolded. Brute attitudes