{"id":1777,"date":"2006-07-29T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-29T00:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/investigar-por-investigar-2\/"},"modified":"2006-07-29T06:10:56","modified_gmt":"2006-07-29T06:10:56","slug":"investigar-por-investigar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/investigar-por-investigar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigar por investigar (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anualmente se ofrecen unos premios que se conocen como los <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improb.com\/ig\/\">Ig Nobel <\/a>que supuestamente se le conceden a investigadores que realizan estudios&nbsp; que &quot;primero&nbsp; hacen reir y despu&eacute;s hacen pensar&quot;. Pues a m&iacute;&nbsp; muchos de ellos lo que me dan es pena y lo que me hacen pensar es que hay investigadores perdiendo el tiempo e investigando para engordar sus vitaes. Incluyo una selecci&oacute;n de mis &quot;favoritos&quot;: <a href=\"http:\/\/improbable.com\/ig\/ig-pastwinners.html\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.uiuc.edu\/people\/faculty\/simons.html\">Daniel Simons<\/a> de <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beckman.uiuc.edu\/news\/inthe\/ignobel.html\">University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/a> y <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/%7ecfc\/\">Christopher Chabris<\/a> de Harvard University, por demostrar que cuando la gente le presta atenci&oacute;n a algo pueden ignorar hasta a una mujer con disfraz de gorila. Referencia:&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjh.harvard.edu\/%7ecfc\/Simons1999.pdf\">Gorillas in Our Midst<\/a>,&quot; Daniel J. Simons and Christopher F. Chabris, vol.   28, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perceptionweb.com\/\">Perception<\/a>, 1999, pp, 1059-74.&nbsp; He logrado iluminarme con este gran descubrimiento. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/WysiwygPro\/editor_files\/images\/smileys\/smiley3.gif\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.idi.ntnu.no\/%7Ealeks\/farting.txt\">Dr. Mara Sidoli<\/a> of Washington,  DC, &quot;Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread.&quot; [Publicado en &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk\/asp\/journal.asp?ref=0021-8774\">Journal of Analytical Psychology<\/a>,&quot; vol. 41, no. 2, 1996, pp. 165-78. Cita del abstracto: &quot;When feeling endangered, Peter had developed a defensive olfactive container using his bodily smell and  farts to envelop himself in a protective cloud of familiarity against the dread of falling apart, and to hold his  personality together.&quot; Ya tiene una nueva estrategia para lidiar con la ansiedad. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/WysiwygPro\/editor_files\/images\/smileys\/smiley8.gif\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/characin.flet.mita.keio.ac.jp\/%7eswat\/\">Shigeru Watanabe<\/a>, Junko Sakamoto, and Masumi Wakita, of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keio.ac.jp\/\">Keio University<\/a>, por adiestrar palomas que discriminan entre las pinturas de Picaso y las de Monet, &quot;Pigeons&#8217; Discrimination of Paintings by Monet and Picasso,&quot; &quot;Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior,&quot; vol. 63, 1995, pp. 165-174. Ahora podemos utilizar las palomas para ense&ntilde;arle esta destreza a nuestros estudiantes. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/WysiwygPro\/editor_files\/images\/smileys\/smiley2.gif\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cla.wayne.edu\/crimjust\/stack\/\">Steven Stack<\/a>&nbsp; de Wayne State University,&nbsp; y <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ineedcoffee.com\/by\/jim_gundlach\/\">James Sundlach<\/a> de Auburn University, por su investigaci&oacute;n &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.questia.com\/PM.qst?a=o&amp;d=95183303\">The Effect of Country Music on Suicide<\/a>.&quot; Y a pesar de que no me gusta la m&uacute;sica country no creo que sea para tanto: &quot;In this article, we explore the link between a particular form of<br \/>\npopular music (country music) and metropolitan suicide rates. We contend that the themes found in country music foster a suicidal mood among people already at risk of suicide and that it is thereby associated with a high suicide rate. The effect is buttressed by the country subculture and a link between this subculture and a racial status related to an increased suicide risk.&quot; Lo interesante es que en este caso solo puede hablarse de correlaci&oacute;n y no de causa y efecto pero el t&iacute;tulo y el art&iacute;culo dan a entender otra cosa. <\/p>\n<p>La mayor&iacute;a de los premios Ig Noble no me hacen reir y lo&nbsp; que me hacen pensar es que hay mucho cient&iacute;fico desenfocado y perdiendo el tiempo en nimiedades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anualmente se ofrecen unos premios que se conocen como los Ig Nobel que supuestamente se le conceden a investigadores que realizan estudios&nbsp; que &quot;primero&nbsp; hacen reir y despu&eacute;s hacen pensar&quot;. Pues a m&iacute;&nbsp; muchos de ellos lo que me dan es pena y lo que me hacen pensar es que hay investigadores perdiendo el tiempo &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/2006\/07\/29\/investigar-por-investigar-2\/\">Seguir leyendo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[136],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ensenanza","item-wrap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tuv-sF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vidadigital.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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