Ig Nobel
3 October 2008 at 5:40 am Lasse 1 comment
| Lasse Lien |
The Ig Nobel for economics has been awarded for 2008. The winners are:
Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur, and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, for discovering that a professional lap dancer’s ovulatory cycle affects her tip earnings.
It’s tempting to pose the classic question: Could the direction of causality be an issure here?
Reference: “Ovulatory Cycle Effects on Tip Earnings by Lap Dancers: Economic Evidence for Human Estrus?” Geoffrey Miller, Joshua M. Tybur, Brent D. Jordan, Evolution and Human Behavior, vol. 28, 2007, pp. 375-81.
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Peter Klein | 3 October 2008 at 11:19 am
A management paper won too:
LITERATURE PRIZE. David Sims of Cass Business School. London, UK, for his lovingly written study “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations.”
REFERENCE: “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations,” David Sims, Organization Studies, vol. 26, no. 11, 2005, pp. 1625-40.
http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2008