Ig Nobel

~ Clarissa

An Ig Nobel Prize award has been given to a study that every single reader of my blog will find relevant:

PSYCHOLOGY PRIZE [AUSTRALIA, UK, USA]: Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.

REFERENCE: “Creatures of the Night: Chronotypes and the Dark Triad Traits,” Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 55, no. 5, 2013, pp. 538-541.

Maybe we should rename to blog to “Self-Admiring, Manipulative Psychopaths’ Blog.”

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  2. Amy Jones, one of the Ig Noble winners, also said:

    “People who display the traits often do very well in life, having desirable jobs and more sexual partners”, she said. “Successful psychopaths are going to end up in all the high end jobs, in charge of companies, making millions. The unsuccessful psychopaths are the ones that end up in jail.”

    also

    “The entire Italian government won the economics prize for being the first European nation to increase its economy by factoring in revenues from prostitution, smuggling and the sale of illegal drugs.”

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    1. That, NG, is just good science. Illegal economic activity is still economic activity and it supports many countries. Corruption also brings in money. Economists talk about this.
      But in general, these psychologists do not seem to be good scientists, or very scientific. And they seem resentful … perhaps they need therapy …

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  3. “Peter K. Jonason, Amy Jones, and Minna Lyons, [amassed] evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.”

    I bloody well hope so — someone has to keep the early-rising minions in line.

    [grins a toothy Gordon Gekko grin] 🙂

    Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to figure out how to send some jobs to the Republic of Ireland, now that the Scots have proven to be a somewhat embarrassing disappointment …

    Oh, you didn’t realise those comments about Scotland as the new Switzerland weren’t entirely hypothetical, did you …

    [sinister power-mad grin] 🙂

    Such wonderful plans, now having to be rewritten …

    Did anyone else see the YES vote on top of one of the stacks on the NO table at Clackmannanshire?

    Obviously the right people weren’t paid off.

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    1. Also, you may find this interesting:

      “Too big to be saved: Systemic risk alive and well in Europe”:
      http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/09/big-saved-systemic-risk-alive-well-europe.html

      “At the end of the study period (31 July, 2014), the total exposure of the 100 most systemically risky firms was 810 billion euros. The countries with the highest levels of systemic risk are France and the UK. These two countries contribute to approximately 55% of the total exposure of European financial institutions.”

      The City is far from secure, and the City knows it.

      An independent Scotland could have provided an asset haven away from this systemic risk, at least for a while …

      At the least, the Scots might have some extra money to support Scottish socialism, including the support of Scottish historical institutions.

      What, you think that Charles Rennie Mackintosh museum is going to rebuild itself after the fire?

      Well, at least the William Morris gallery in Walthamstow is still there … for now.

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