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Beer-Drinking Scientist Debunks Productivity Correlation
austinpoet writes in with a blog post debunking the theory we discussed a few days back that scientists' beer consumption is linearly correlated with the quality of their work. Chris Mack, Gentleman Scientist and beer drinker, has analyzed the paper and found it is severely flawed. From his analysis: "The discovered linear relationship between beer consumption and scientific output had a correlation coefficient (R-squared) of only about 0.5 — not very high by my standards, though I suspect many biologists would be happy to get one that high in their work... Thus, the entire study came down to only one conclusion: the five worst ornithologists in the Czech Republic drank a lot of beer."
beer > coffee/caffeine
Gone!
Scientists Claim there is a direct correlation b/w pot smokers and an amazing talent to link string theory with life on mars
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It's more about the quality of their beer. Not that I have anything against Pilsen. I think they make a perfectly fine beer over there.
What?
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I think what you refer to is known as the "Ballmer Peak" shown on this graph:
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This has to be a lost Monty Python sketch, right?
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So it's safe to drink beer again. And to think I was actually going to cut down!
Some suggestions:
Pilsener Urquell vs. Milwaukee's Best
Budvar vs. Old Milwaukee
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I refuse to give up one entire food group!!!
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If you were one of the five worst scientists in a field in the Czech Republic, you'd probably turn to drink, right?
They gave him the bird!
I swear to God...I swear to God! That is NOT how you treat your human!
It's a kdawson post. It's to be expected.
*burp*
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
If you consume beer through an IV I think you're a different type of drinker.
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Our next speaker is Dr. Ivan Crow, well known as one of the five worst ornithologists in the Czech Republic, author of Using Airguns Correctly and The Prague Beer Guide. He will be talking to us about "Birds and why they suck".
Pilsener Urquell vs. Milwaukee's Best
Budvar vs. Old Milwaukee
Type Error: can't compare incompatible types.
There you are, staring at me again.
Social activity leads to "rubbing shoulders" with those with the ability to affect your career. Argo:
Social activity with beer would likely lead to scientist's getting tenure; most people will agree that tenure doesn't help produce "quality" papers (defined as those likely to be sited a lot and in prestigious journals). Just like most nobel prize winners tend to do little productive work in their field after that accomplishment. I'm from a physics background, our nobel prize winners have been known to go into such great research areas as "proving aliens exist" and throwing temper tantrums that quantum mechanics doesn't "feel" right to them.
Not to say that the tenure system is bad, we need independence/security for researchers so they aren't forced too much to do what will get them grants and keep them in a position. As well, I'd rather have the heavy beer drinking crowd safely behind a desk then operating a crane above my office. However, I don't think it is great that the entire university heirachy revolves around getting tenure as a status symbol. No one's job should be so secure that they cease having to try.
I am pretty sure we will need one full crate of lager before most of us can make out wtf you two guys are talking about.
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