door p__ » zo 25 dec 2005, 13:32
Researchers Investigate The Case Of The Disappearing Teaspoons
"Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?" is an age old question in the workplace. In this week's British Medical Journal, researchers at the Burnet Institute in Australia attempt to measure the phenomenon of teaspoon loss and its effect on office life.
During the study, 56 (80%) of the 70 teaspoons disappeared. The half life of the teaspoons was 81 days (that is, half had disappeared permanently after that time). The half life of teaspoons in communal tearooms (42 days) was significantly shorter than those in rooms linked to particular research groups (77 days).
The rate of loss was not influenced by the teaspoons' value and the overall incidence of teaspoon loss was 360.62 per 100 teaspoon years. At this rate, an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a workable population of 70 teaspoons, say the authors.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/...51223123246.htm
Je vraagt je nu natuurlijk af waar al deze theelepeltjes blijven.
De onderzoekers komen met een revolutionaire hypothese:
We propose a somewhat more speculative theory (with apologies to Douglas Adams and Veet Voojagig). Somewhere in the cosmos, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, walking treeoids, and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, a planet is entirely given over to spoon life-forms. Unattended spoons make their way to this planet, slipping away through space to a world where they enjoy a uniquely spoonoid lifestyle, responding to highly spoon oriented stimuli, and generally leading the spoon equivalent of the good life.4
Our data might also be contemplated through the prism of counterphenomenological resistentialism, which holds that les choses sont contre nous (things are against us).5 Resistentialism is the belief that inanimate objects have a natural antipathy towards humans, and therefore it is not people who control things but things that increasingly control people. Although it seems unreasonable to say that the teaspoons are exerting any influence over the Burnet Institute's employees (with the exception of the authors), their demonstrated ability to migrate and disappear shows that we have little or no control over them.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/ful.../7531/1498?ehom
Geschokt? Ik ook.
Weet iemand nog een theorie die verklaart waar de theelepeltjes heengaan?
[quote][b]Researchers Investigate The Case Of The Disappearing Teaspoons[/b]
[i]"Where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?" is an age old question in the workplace. In this week's British Medical Journal, researchers at the Burnet Institute in Australia attempt to measure the phenomenon of teaspoon loss and its effect on office life.[/i]
During the study, 56 (80%) of the 70 teaspoons disappeared. The half life of the teaspoons was 81 days (that is, half had disappeared permanently after that time). The half life of teaspoons in communal tearooms (42 days) was significantly shorter than those in rooms linked to particular research groups (77 days).
The rate of loss was not influenced by the teaspoons' value and the overall incidence of teaspoon loss was 360.62 per 100 teaspoon years. At this rate, an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased annually to maintain a workable population of 70 teaspoons, say the authors.
[url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/12/051223123246.htm]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/...51223123246.htm[/url][/quote]
Je vraagt je nu natuurlijk af waar al deze theelepeltjes blijven.
De onderzoekers komen met een revolutionaire hypothese:
[quote]We propose a somewhat more speculative theory (with apologies to Douglas Adams and Veet Voojagig). Somewhere in the cosmos, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, walking treeoids, and superintelligent shades of the colour blue, a planet is entirely given over to spoon life-forms. Unattended spoons make their way to this planet, slipping away through space to a world where they enjoy a uniquely spoonoid lifestyle, responding to highly spoon oriented stimuli, and generally leading the spoon equivalent of the good life.4
Our data might also be contemplated through the prism of counterphenomenological resistentialism, which holds that les choses sont contre nous (things are against us).5 Resistentialism is the belief that inanimate objects have a natural antipathy towards humans, and therefore it is not people who control things but things that increasingly control people. Although it seems unreasonable to say that the teaspoons are exerting any influence over the Burnet Institute's employees (with the exception of the authors), their demonstrated ability to migrate and disappear shows that we have little or no control over them.
[url=http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7531/1498?ehom]http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/ful.../7531/1498?ehom[/url][/quote]
Geschokt? Ik ook.
Weet iemand nog een theorie die verklaart waar de theelepeltjes heengaan?
