reprimand the referee
There’s new evidence that it pays to yell at referees at sports stadiums. The evidence comes in a study by Joel Guerret, Caroline Blais, and Daniel Fisset of the University of Quebec in Outaouais, Canada, titled “Verbal attacks on Major League Baseball umpires influence decision-making.” They published it in a magazine psychological science.
Guerret, Brace, and Fisset examined 10 years of Major League Baseball game data. They stress that these games are played out in an “ecological environment rife with hypercritique.”
They discovered what they called “the double-sided benefits of resorting to verbal abuse.” After being heavily criticized, “home plate umpires were less likely to call a strike to the complaining team’s batter and more likely to call a strike to the opposing team’s batter.”
Mr. B. McGraw (who did not specify his name) brought the matter to Feedback’s attention, impressed by the authors’ development of a disciplined academic voice: “Our findings support the hypothesis that under certain conditions, verbal aggression can be advantageous to the accuser.”
ice cream nozzle
Questions arise when the nozzle starts to collect foreign matter, but if you diligently clean the nozzle after using it to dispense a scoop of ice cream, the question becomes less pressing. Because if you don’t clean the nozzles and other parts of your food machine, things can grow healthy (from a material point of view).
Psychrotrophic bacteria are bacteria that can grow at low temperatures, temperatures such as those that can occur in refrigerators and freezers.
Research called ”Psychrotrophic bacteria with virulence and colonization properties live in the ice cream production environment”, the need for nozzle maintenance comes to mind. The purpose of this discussion is to prevent horror stories from happening. The authors, from Italy’s University of Naples Federico II, said: “We provide evidence for the existence of a complex microbial community that overcomes the sanitary conditions of ice cream production facilities.” Therefore, Harken is an ice creamer. Please clean the nozzle.
your chocolate nozzle
For example, considering what shape nozzle to use for 3D printing chocolate can raise unexpected and vaguely related questions.research in frontiers of psychology We focus on one surprisingly subtle and complex question. So when it comes to the question of taste, how much chocolate is too much chocolate?This study is called ”Effect of bouba and kiki-like shapes on the perceived taste of chocolate pieces”.
”Booba” and ”kiki” are coined words, and psychological experiments suggest that they somehow evoke the concept of shape. To many people, a ”bouba” looks curvy and a ”kiki” looks pointy. The researchers found evidence that Booba was subtly sweeter than Kiki, but to measure the difference they had to limit the amount of chocolate in each bite.
They wrote: “Previous studies have found no difference in participants’ reports of a difference in taste after actually eating round and square chocolate pieces. Because there was so much chocolate in the cup, we thought that the actual taste might have dominated the effect of perceived shape on taste.”
They devised a solution. “We designed a ring-shaped stimulus with no chocolate filling in the center to avoid the need to ingest excess chocolate taste or flavor while maintaining perceived shape differences.”
Reducing chocolate consumption by using sweeter-tasting forms, they say, would reduce chocolate production and, in turn, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, benefiting even those who don’t eat chocolate. The Booba/Kiki-inspired choice of chocolate dispenser nozzle is implicit and may be more than just a symbolic weapon in the fight against global warming.
diagonal nozzle
If you really want to install a turbofan engine in a jet aircraft, and if you want quietness, make the nozzle diagonally. Make a chamfer. These are the words of Julien Christophe, Julien de Dekker and Christophe Schramm of the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium.Writing in progress flow, turbulence, combustionThey explain the reason as follows: “The beveled nozzle provides noise reduction at all emission angles, with up to 2 dB reduction at the receiver’s position perpendicular to the plate.” For peace of mind, bevel.
cryptographic emoji
If there’s a contest for a jargon-heavy study about a sketchy financial business, perhaps you could submit your cryptocurrency to a study called ”Emoji-led crypto market reaction”, written by Xiaorui Zuo, Yao-Tsung Chen, and Wolfgang Karl Härdle.
The word “pith” is sometimes defined as “the spongy white tissue that lines the inside of the peel of oranges and other citrus fruits.” This study contains a pointed explanation of itself. “We leverage GPT-4 and his fine-tuned Transformer-based BERT model to perform multimodal sentiment analysis and focus on the impact of emoji sentiment on the crypto market.” The paper does not say what “BERT” is. “Similar sentiment analysis techniques could be applied to a broader range of financial markets,” the paper says.
Mark Abrahams hosted the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony and co-founded the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. Previously, he was working on unusual uses of computers.his website is impossible.com.
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