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As mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the Ig Nobel Prize, > “the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research” It’s not raising awareness. I
by mlthoughts2018 6y ago
As mentioned in the Wikipedia article about the Ig Nobel Prize,
> “the Ig Nobel Awards are veiled criticism of trivial research”
It’s not raising awareness. It’s making light of the underlying concerns and trivializing them.
Misophonia isn’t trivial to me. It’s a significant disorder that makes my life challenging.
It’s deeply upsetting that the Ig Nobel committee would view it as within the purview of their award designations.
- sellyme 6y agoAs mentioned on Improbable Research's website: > We collect improbable research. Real research, about anything and everything, from everywhere. Research that’s maybe good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. There's typically a few serious research papers included each year.
- me_me_me 6y agoIn all fairness there was a prize for research about cows caloric intake based on amount light and temperature or something like that. It sound stupid, but this research was used by farmers to plan amount of food and condition for cows during winter. So just because the research topic sounds funny it doesn't meant that it is useless.