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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