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I encourage everyone to read the paper linked in the article. They've gone through surprising amounts of effort to justify their conclusion, and it includes som
by contravariant 7y ago
I encourage everyone to read the paper linked in the article. They've gone through surprising amounts of effort to justify their conclusion, and it includes some surprisingly nice graphs of the 'alignment during defecation' of dogs.
I sincerely hope their works will be recognised by the (Ig)-nobel committee.
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- ebg13 7y agoThe article was published at the end of 2013. They did get recognized.
- contravariant 7y agoOh right, I hadn't seen the date. Glad they got recognised though.
- nebulous1 7y agoThey indeed won the 2014 Ignoble Biology prize! https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/#ig2014 https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/#ig2014
- supernova87a 7y agoI did not understand the 3 bins of 0%, 1%, 2% etc. declination. Does anyone have a simple explanation for that? Also, the point about the sun is good -- maybe they just don't want sun in their eyes. Clearly the very dedicated and obsessed researcher needs to do a similar study but indoors. Can you imagine who has the personal passion to do this data collection?
- contravariant 7y agoI don't have a particularly good explanation for those specific choices, but I did notice that they resulted in somewhat similar sample sizes across all three bins, so it might just have been that.
- supernova87a 7y agoOh, I meant, I don't even understand what the bins are -- what is the declination measuring that they wanted to divide the data up by?
- nate_meurer 7y ago@jwmerrill wrote an excellent comment about this, which as of now is at the top of the thread.