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Some recent research has suggested that there is a link between certain foods such as chocolate and obtaining a Nobel prize. New research found dedicating a high proportion of GDP to research and a high number of scientific papers published were more accurate predictors.
From the article:
Several recent studies have described a strong correlation between nutritional or economic data and the number of Nobel awards obtained across a large range of countries. This sheds new light on the intriguing question of the key predictors of Nobel awards chances. However, all these studies have been focused on a single predictor and were only based on simple correlation and/or linear model analysis. The main aim of the present study was thus to clarify this debate by simultaneously exploring the influence of food consumption (cacao, milk, and wine), economic variables (gross domestic product) and scientific activity (number of publications and research expenditure) on Nobel awards. An innovative statistical analysis, hierarchical partitioning, has been used because it enables us to reduce collinearity problems by determining and comparing the independent contribution of each factor. Our results clearly indicate that a country's number of Nobel awards can be mainly predicted by its scientific achievements such as number of publications and research expenditure. Conversely, dietary habits and the global economy variable are only minor predictors; this finding contradicts the conclusions of previous studies. Dedicating a large proportion of the GDP to research and to the publication of a high number of scientific papers would thus create fertile ground for obtaining Nobel awards.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by crutchy on Saturday March 29 2014, @10:02AM
They awarded a Nobel Prize in economics to Paul Krugman and a Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for fuck sake.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Bot on Saturday March 29 2014, @10:26AM
Indeed.
With Obama, I could end up being deployed in a war zone and nobody knows there's a war! Me, a propaganda bot!
What will I tell to my grandchild processes? "Yep there were those kid terrorists playing hide and seek, and BLAM I drove a missile straight into them, ready or not"?
Why don't you revert to the good old habits of declaring war, meeting in some valley at some hour, beating the sh*t out of each other, and the one who comes out takes all? Especially since no bots are involved.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 29 2014, @10:39AM
Pretty much proves the nobel prize is a bad joke.
So who gives a damm about it. There's alot more jokes that are way more funny. And less likely to get me killed or put on some list.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by umafuckitt on Saturday March 29 2014, @12:12PM
No it doesn't prove anything. Obama got the peace prize, which is notorious as being the most lightweight prize and is really just a way for making a political point. The prizes in the hard sciences (including medicine and physiology) remain untainted and are still worthy of their reputation.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by guises on Saturday March 29 2014, @12:49PM
The peace prize is political by definition, what is your beef with Krugman's work on new trade theory?
(Score: -1, Troll) by crutchy on Saturday March 29 2014, @02:03PM
Krugman is an blubbering idiot. His "theories" helped cause the GFC.