See also: Lim MSC, Hellard ME, Aitken CK (2005) The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian Research Institute. BMJ 331:1498-1500.
Very funny and clever. - Daniel On 08/06/2015 17:59, "Bob O'Hara" <[email protected]> wrote: >The BMJ has a Christmas issue that contains amusements, my favourite of >which is this one: ><http://www.bmj.com/content/323/7327/1450> >(which has even been used in a 'serious' meta-analysis) > >Bob > >On 06/08/2015 05:40 PM, David Schneider wrote: >> For a humorous application of inverse probability >> (which somehow came to be called Bayesian statistics) >> see >> Stigler, S.M. 1983. Who discovered Bayes's Theorem? >> The American Statistician 37:290-296 >> >> David Schneider >> >> >> Quoting Gary Grossman <[email protected]>: >> >>> I'm looking for funny articles published and a few come to mind that I >>> can't remember citations for so I thought I'd ask here. I don't really >>> want to page through J. Irreproducable Results or Worm Runner's Digest >>>but >>> there are a few I'm hoping someone can help me with (vice vis pdfs) >>> >>> In either the late 70's or 80's there was a note in Nature that >>>comprised >>> the poem and reviewers comments on Shelley's *"Ozymandias*" >>> >>> Then at about the same time someone published a paper in Limn. & Ocean. >>> estimating the biomass of the Loch Ness monster. >>> >>> And also at some point someone published a satirical paper on "if no >>>one >>> heard it, did the tree in the forest really fall?" >>> >>> Of course any other humorous gems would be appreciated. >>> Please remember the list doesn't allow attachments, so please respond >>>to my >>> university email. >>> >>> TIA, g2 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Gary D. Grossman, PhD >>> >>> Professor of Animal Ecology >>> Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources >>> University of Georgia >>> Athens, GA, USA 30602 >>> >>> http://grossman.myweb.uga.edu/ <http://www.arches.uga.edu/%7Egrossman> >>> >>> Board of Editors - Animal Biodiversity and Conservation >>> Editorial Board - Freshwater Biology >>> Editorial Board - Ecology Freshwater Fish >>> > > >-- >Bob O'Hara > >Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre >Senckenberganlage 25 >D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, >Germany > >Tel: +49 69 7542 1863 >Mobile: +49 1515 888 5440 >WWW: http://www.bik-f.de/root/index.php?page_id=219 >Blog: http://blogs.nature.com/boboh >Journal of Negative Results - EEB: www.jnr-eeb.org >
