It took three researchers from the Netherlands to determine that the Eiffel Tower appears smaller when you lean to the left.
The study, which surely must be aware of its own irony, found that researchers are experiencing "attention decay" because of the glut of academic papers. Just like we're overwhelmed by the bounty of the internet, researchers are forgetting important studies because they're swimming in nonessential ones.
More @ SF Gate
That would be significant if the final measure of your study were "how much attention can I get for my stupid cause".
ReplyDeleteREAL science, as it happens through research, happens when it happens, as often as needed. And even if the other advocats and agitators don't notice, other real scietists DO, and further their own research using that, and discover new useful stuff.
Thus, another study that finds women find college researchers more attractive after they have been drinking, isn't all that much value (unless you are a college researcher using your research grant to get laid). But all the new research that furthers the boundaries of what we know in medicine, physics, and chemistry are tremendously valuable to society, no matter how many people pay attention to it.
unless you are a college researcher using your research grant to get laid
DeleteThey better get a written consent first. :)