Dear Fellow Ecologgers, And now for a fun and not-very-scientific request (and yes, I realize that April Fool’s Day is coming up)….I would like to develop a fun presentation for our departmental awards gathering next month and I am working on a short 10-15 minute talk on “The Tiki Effect”. Many labs I have been in through the years often have good luck charms (i.e. a tiki statue or something similar) that they place on top of their PCR machines, or any other equipment, to improve success. But does it? Just to be fun and as a statical exercise, our lab has been gathering data for some time on PCR success rates with and without the tiki statue. So we will analyze these data - probably modifying a bit for this particular presentation (if needed) so it is a bit humorous.
My question for you….if you also traditionally use these types of good luck charms, could you please send me a photo of them in action off the list? I would like to collect these and use them in our presentation just to show how widespread this behavior might be. Thanks, Theresa Theresa M. Culley, Ph.D. Professor Provost Fellow Department of Biological Sciences University of Cincinnati 614 Rieveschl Hall Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006 Office: 703 Reiveschl Hall Tel: 513-556-9705 Web: www.homepages.uc.edu/~culleyt/CulleyLab.html<http://www.homepages.uc.edu/~culleyt/CulleyLab.html> Email: theresa.cul...@uc.edu<mailto:theresa.cul...@uc.edu>
