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> there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds of mazes, and so on—with little clear result. But in 1937 a man named Young did a very intere

> there have been many experiments running rats through all kinds of mazes, and so on—with little clear result. But in 1937 a man named Young did a very interesting one. Has anyone found this paper? I searched a few years ago and couldn't find anything.

bborud 7y ago
Me neither, and for this reason I tend to use this paper to see who pays attention. Best case: someone tracks down the missing paper(s). I suspect it may be a joke Feynman played on us to prove a point. :) Good catch.
- bborud 7y ago
  As for "good catch": I think it took me at least 6 months from I first read the paper before I actually tried to find the research in question. Not finding even a single credible reference was a humiliating and humbling experience. I've looked for it several times over the year since and stille come up empty-handed. I was giving a talk where I was going to refer to Feynman's speech and I felt I needed to fact-check it. (I ended up using the speech in the talk I was giving, but I did give a hint at the end that perhaps this speech might possibly contain a joke at our expense, or something along those lines. So as to not look like a total idiot if someone else did a better job of checking the speech faster than I had done :-)) So kudos to you @killjoywashere :-)
droithomme 7y ago
Paul Thomas Young obit: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421573 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421573 rat paper still missing
- acidburnNSA 7y ago
  Here's some stuff from him: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Young,%20Paul%20Thomas,%201892%22&type=author&inst= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Young,... The 1945 one sounds closest: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012277991?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Young%2C%20Paul%20Thomas%2C%201892%22&ft= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012277991?type%5B%5D=a...

bborud 7y ago

Me neither, and for this reason I tend to use this paper to see who pays attention. Best case: someone tracks down the missing paper(s). I suspect it may be a joke Feynman played on us to prove a point. :) Good catch.

bborud 7y ago
As for "good catch": I think it took me at least 6 months from I first read the paper before I actually tried to find the research in question. Not finding even a single credible reference was a humiliating and humbling experience. I've looked for it several times over the year since and stille come up empty-handed. I was giving a talk where I was going to refer to Feynman's speech and I felt I needed to fact-check it. (I ended up using the speech in the talk I was giving, but I did give a hint at the end that perhaps this speech might possibly contain a joke at our expense, or something along those lines. So as to not look like a total idiot if someone else did a better job of checking the speech faster than I had done :-)) So kudos to you @killjoywashere :-)

droithomme 7y ago

Paul Thomas Young obit: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421573 https://www.jstor.org/stable/1421573 rat paper still missing

acidburnNSA 7y ago
Here's some stuff from him: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Young,%20Paul%20Thomas,%201892%22&type=author&inst= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Young,... The 1945 one sounds closest: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012277991?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Young%2C%20Paul%20Thomas%2C%201892%22&ft= https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012277991?type%5B%5D=a...