tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post8309169280829325572..comments2023-05-02T11:34:45.330-04:00Comments on Thinking for Free: My Alumni Dollars At WorkKizhe the Couch Czarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04046357500651886319noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post-25277894389721437802007-11-25T18:09:00.000-05:002007-11-25T18:09:00.000-05:00Jim, that's not competing research.1. The two rese...Jim, that's not competing research.<BR/><BR/>1. The two research programs probably are not drawing from the same funding pool. So their grant proposals aren't even competing.<BR/><BR/>2. Did you miss this part?<BR/><I>A sexy walk would be too obvious, so women are thought to use changes in smell and facial expressions that can be experienced only at close range.</I><BR/><BR/>The strippers in New Mexico were conducting lap dances - that qualifies as "close range" in my book. <BR/><BR/>So there's no conflict between these two sets of results.<BR/><BR/>And finally, to everyone: this research was both inexpensive and not funded via the alumni association. Unless you're in the habit of donating directly to an individual professor's research funds, none of this was directly your money at work.<BR/><BR/>Besides, it is an interesting result, even if it is also rather preliminary and possibly supported by dubious Evol Psych theories.TheBrummellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973380652057861796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post-14701662858774135592007-11-11T12:32:00.000-05:002007-11-11T12:32:00.000-05:00Yet competing research from the University of New ...Yet <A HREF="http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9942043" REL="nofollow">competing research from the University of New Mexico</A> says that strippers who are ovulating make more money per shift than strippers who are on the pill or are not ovulating.Lippardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16826768452963498005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-674192606176078067.post-1347369994400119362007-11-08T22:52:00.000-05:002007-11-08T22:52:00.000-05:00It could be worse - my alum donations get spent on...It could be worse - my alum donations get spent on <BR/><A HREF="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/11/06/mit_sues_gehry_citing_leaks_in_300m_complex/" REL="nofollow">bizarrely constructed and now moldy buildings</A>Theo Brominehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14078583453130339726noreply@blogger.com