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Strange and funny research Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments by Justin Kruger and David Dunning in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology [article] [further reading] Summary: The authors interviewed people who had just taken various tests of humor, grammar and logic. It turned out that those people that did worst in the tests also significantly overestimated their own performance and ability. Not only were they unskilled, but their lack of skill also prevented them from realizing their own cluelessness. So, self confident people are either very skilled or very clueless... Diurnal sleep depth changes in the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) by G. Dewasmes and N. Loos in Polar Biology [abstract] Summary: A French scientist sneaked up on Penguins while they were asleep and poked them with a stick untill they woke up. He found that he had to poke penguins more times in the afternoon compared to in the morning. The paper thus reports the conclusion that "penguins sleep more deeply in the afternoon". I'm glad we got that straightened out... Chickens prefer beautiful humans by Stefano Ghirlanda, Liselotte Jansson and Magnus Enquist in ??? [article] Summary: Sweden moves to the forefront of international research with this milestone publication which reveals that chickens can be trained to prefer people that are generally considered (by Swedish students) to be good looking. That suggests that Swedes and chickens have the same sexual preferences. It does, however, remain unclear whether Swedes prefer beautiful chickens... Strange and funny beliefs DNA Activation: The absurd idea that you can somehow magically chance your DNA
by looking at pictures or listening to music. Ultimately, this should lead to you becoming some kind of
super god. The man behind it is called Robert V. Gerard, who wrote the book "change your DNA, change your
life". If you are danish, you should definately check out the hilarious "DNA Denmark" site, where they
claim that your DNA is able to communicate with the DNA in rocks and crystals (that donīt have DNA). |
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