Ridiculous research

>>8199547
good kek thread

>>8199547
A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under Glucose Tolerance and Other Metabolic Curves

basically this woman reinvents high school calculus, names it after herself and gets cited like mad

>>8199737
This story gets exaggerated more the more it is brought up. No, that is not what it is.

>>8199774
fine, let's be nice and rephrase it:

a woman is struggling to find the area below a curve, finds out a high school level method of doing so. she shares her findings with the medical community, which thought this was cool new idea

>>8199821
She didn't reinvent calculus though
Just a riemann series

>>8199547
This guy's pretty important in my field too:
http://pentagono.uniandes.edu.co/~jarteaga/geosem/taller7/minicursoJK-Uniandes/robotic%20examples/kane.pdf

Apparently there's a wiki page now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_cat_problem

>>8199821
> which thought this was cool new idea
read the review. Everyone said she's full of shit.

>>8199547
Also check out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
http://www.improbable.com/ig/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqVCl2VoZqU
It's a ceremony put on by nobel prize winners about improbable research. Very high brow humor here.

>>8199831
I wish I was a scientist 50 years ago. I'd just keep dropping cats and giggle.

>>8199547
http://fr.scribd.com/doc/233602815/Barnetts-Identity-Pdf1

>>8199830
kek

>>8199830
yeah and gorthendieck reinvented lesbegues measure

fucking shithead undergrads

>>8201250
wel, i re-invented statistics while doing my master's thesis

>>8199547
>>8199737
having massive deja vu atm
anyone else remember a thread with both of these in them?

>>8199547
All psychology and sociology publications.

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>>8199737
Since no ones said it yet.
In the review she argued that her method was novel because she adds the triangle to the top of a rectangular riemann rectangle, for a better estimate. This is clearly just the trapezoid rule, written in a worse way.

Bumping with book titles

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>>8201506
His other book

>>8201506
Jokes on her because using the middle Riemann sum converges faster than the trapezoidal rule

>>8199821
>which thought this was cool new idea

No they didn't, the reviews of that article were all critical pointing out that it was precalculus.

The funniest for me is definitely "of flying frogs and levitrons." Geim won an ignobel prize for his work in putting a frog in a strong magnetic field. The diamagnetic water caused the frog to levitate. This guy went on to win the nobel prize for graphene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rotTjRY5lRw

>>8201548
That's hilarious!

>>8201548
Frogs are good test subjects.

>>8201548
Pepe, no!

"Predicting the buoyancy, equilibrium and potential swimming ability of giraffes by computational analysis."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20385144

>>8201620
This paper is an opinion.

This is why humanities do not belong in a university.

>>8199547
Heres a list of funny mathematics paper titles
>Hodge's general conjecture is false for trivial reasons
>You Could Have Invented Spectral Sequences
>Can one hear the shape of a drum?
>A minus sign that used to annoy me but now I know why it is there
>How not to prove the Poincare Conjecture
>Ramanujan's association with radicals in India
>Is the null-graph a pointless concept?
>Everybody knows what a Hopf algebra is
>On O_n
>Free rings and their relations
>Six standard deviations suffice.
>The importance of being straight
>The homotopy category is a homotopy category
>Division by three
>A Group of Order 8,315,553,613,086,720,000
>Holey Sheets
>On groups of order one.
>K-Theory and Reality
>The Joy of Sets.
>Applied Mathematics is Bad Mathematics

>>8201612
like the publisher's name. SAGE goes in all fields though

>>8201612
>at least two of the authors are male

>>8201631
I was trying to find a paper where someone claimed Einstein's equation is sexed and the speed of light is privileged. But the only thing I could find was that there was no evidence that the researcher who supposedly said it actually did.

>>8201712
They're probably friendzoned white knights.

>>8201804
And remember they are also the physicists involved in the project.

>>8201796
Some googling led me to "To Speak is Never Neutral" by Luce Irigaray, but I can't find the actual text.

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https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/handle/1853/53595/SHEDD-THESIS-2015.pdf

I know it isn't real research, but I figured it would get a laugh out of someone. Or some less joyous emotional response.

It's april fools', but still: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~edmo/silliness/burrito_monads.pdf

>>8201612
>equitable human-ice interactions
Top kek.

>>8201620
I don't want to live on this planet anymore

>>8201666
I don't see why "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" is so funny.
the rest of them are medium kek material

>>8203026
Because man, hearing shapes, like duuuuuuudee

>>8201620
The funny thing is that the author is actually a physicist. A shit one though.

>>8203031
pull your head out of your ass, son

>>8199547
Paper written by one of professors employed in one electric/(power) engineering institute that "proves" using
simplified model, that in fact eddy currents are smaller, when magnetic core is made of thinner plates
of the same volume.

>>8199737
and what research have you done, anon?

>>8203252
i study sociology

>>8201620
This and all other such bullshit (or penguinshit) is fine with me, as long as it's done in their spare time for fun, and then published for the hell of it. I hope these people don't take their work too seriously.

>>8203497
Meyer-Rochow did his penguin study as a funny sidequest while he was studying antarctic marine invertebrates.

Not sure about the feminists though. They always seem so serious.

dis
https://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/viewFile/2873/4398

>>8201572
Ikr
I think this is the original paper; I'm far from fluent in German .
https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=MK5bAAAAcAAJ&rdid=book-MK5bAAAAcAAJ
Here's the wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

Basically there's a saying, that if you slowly bring a pot of water with a frog to boiling the frog will not notice and will boil alive.
Friedrich Goltz confirmed this with a series of frogs, but only if you remove a large portion of the brain.

Biology sounds fun:
The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.482.4536&rep=rep1&type=pdf

>>8201666
Holey Sheet Satan