Two investigators plunged into the depths of a dark suspicion, producing this report: “Legislating for Economic Sclerosis: Are Lawyers a Baleful Influence on Growth Rates?“, Samuel Cameron [pictured here] and Andy Thorpe, Kyklos, February 2004, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 67–85. The authors conclude: “Our investigation has failed to lend much support to the idea […]
We will donate a heap of Improbable Research to your school (or your whatever)…
If you want to startle your students (or colleagues, patients, or other good people) by making them LAUGH then THINK, we have a heap of Improbable Research for you to give them. For free. You need only be able to come get these things, soon. WHY: Because of impending mega-reconstruction in our building, we find […]
His cool appraisal of cold-showers-and-loneliness research
Dan Simons, psychology professor and Ig Nobel Prize winner (together with Chris Chabris, for the invisible-gorilla study) casts a cool, appraising eye on a cold-shower-and-loneliness study, and looks at the way other investigators have looked at that study. Simons writes, on his blog: Replication, Retraction, and Responsibility Congrats/thanks to Brent Donnellan, Joe Cesario, and Rich […]
For Burns Night: Til All the Drip Dries Up
For Burns Night, again this year, we remind you about this song: “Till All the Drip Dries Up (The Doctor’s Woeful, Skinny Spouse)“: Till All the Drip Dries Up (The Doctor’s Woeful, Skinny Spouse) by A.S. Kaswell (with apologies to Robert Burns) (NOTE: this can be sung to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne“) O, my love’s got […]