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Tag: bounce

“Dead Cat Bounce” (an elucidation)

September 28, 2017 Martin Gardiner

If you’re not sure what the phrase “Dead Cat Bounce” might mean, then the online pages of the journal Medical Economics are at hand for assistance. The publication informs, with regard to Dead Cat Bounce : “That term refers to a stock that’s had a rapid, steep decline, followed by a brief rally. Like a […]

Arts and Science, Boys Will Be Boysbounce, cat, dead, economics, Jargon, medical

A simple bounce test for lively versus dying batteries

March 31, 2015 Marc Abrahams

This video shows how a mechanical “bounce test” can reveal how much electrical charge remains in an ordinary alkaline AA battery: Chemistry World magazine explains: “Inspired by a YouTube video, scientists in the US have confirmed that a simple bounce test can be used as a technique to indicate charge in a battery… A team led by Daniel […]

Research NewsAA, alkaline, battery, bounce, charge

Dropping and bouncing cats (a collection)

October 23, 2012 Marc Abrahams

A small collection of items about dropped and bounced cats: 1. “Does a Cat Always Land on Its Feet?” [article in Annals of Improbable Research, vol. 4, no. 4] 2. The Cat Bounce web site. 3. Dead Cat Bounce, the stock market metaphor. 4. The physics of skulking and falling cats. (Thanks to investigator John Runions […]

Arts and Sciencebounce, cats, drop

Dead cat bounce: stock metaphors

September 7, 2010 Marc Abrahams

In struggling to make sense of the stock market, people reach and stretch for metaphors. Sometimes they even contort, dislocate, and mangle. In 1995, Geoff P Smith of the University of Hong Kong made a grand unified effort to gather and classify those metaphors. Smith congealed the metaphors and his thoughts into a monograph called […]

Extra-Improbable columns, Research Newsbounce, dead cat, metaphor, Randomness, stock market
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