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&B 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&B'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 <m...@nyu.edu> 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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