“A New, Occasional Instrument for Measuring Marital Quality: The Time Required to Make a Cream Cheese and Salmon Bagel Following Funnel-Web Spider Bite,” Gary Walter, Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 171, nos. 11–12, December 6–20, 1999, pp. 674–5. [AIR 16:2] The author is a psychiatrist in Concord West, NSW, Australia. His firsthand account includes a […]
Tag: Research Articles
Teabagging and Coining
“The Tea Bag Experiment: More Evidence on Incentives in Mail Surveys,” Mike Brennan, Janet Hoek, and Philip Gendall, International Journal of Market Research, vol. 40, no. 4, 1998, pp. 347–52. The authors report [AIR 16:2]: This paper reports the results of a study which compared the effectiveness of a tea bag and a $1 coin […]
The Genes of Fabulous Financial Traders (2009)
Other researchers, too, are delving into the biomedical complexities of the individuals who make and lose fortunes by trading financial instruments. “Genetic Determinants of Financial Risk Taking,” Camelia M. Kuhnen and Joan Y. Chiao, PLoS ONE, vol. 4, no. 2, 2009, e4362. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0004362 ( http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0004362.) (Thanks to Ferran Mir for bringing this to our […]
Great Circus Adventures in Accounting (2009)
The turn of the century brought a new openness to, and maybe even nostalgia and yearning for, accounting adventure, symbolized by the publication of a jaunty paper. “Juggling the Books: The Use of Accounting Information in Circus in Australia,” Lorne Cummings and Mark Valentine St. Leon, Accounting History, vol. 14, nos. 1–2, 2009, pp. 11–33 […]