Comments on: How to Win a Nobel Prize http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:37:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Ture Sjolander http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/comment-page-1/#comment-100584 Ture Sjolander Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:04:58 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/10/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/#comment-100584 A Nobel Prize to an Artist, is a priority for the Nobel Prize Committee, 2007. If not so, just drop the whole concept of the Nobel Prize, as whole! www.cordially.homestead.com/ Cheers Al A Nobel Prize to an Artist, is a priority for the Nobel Prize Committee, 2007. If not so, just drop the whole concept of the Nobel Prize, as whole!

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Cheers
Al

]]> By: Kent G. Budge http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/comment-page-1/#comment-100005 Kent G. Budge Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:31:26 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/10/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/#comment-100005 <em>The key to Nobel success is that nobody should understand anything at all about what you do.</em> This statement says more about its author than about the Nobel winners. The cosmic microwave background work, at least, is about as straighttforward and easily understood as one could hope for a modern scientific discovery to be. But then, we already had ample evidence that CNN is a coven of idiots. The key to Nobel success is that nobody should understand anything at all about what you do.

This statement says more about its author than about the Nobel winners. The cosmic microwave background work, at least, is about as straighttforward and easily understood as one could hope for a modern scientific discovery to be.

But then, we already had ample evidence that CNN is a coven of idiots.

]]> By: JohnJ http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/comment-page-1/#comment-99936 JohnJ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:51:44 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/10/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/#comment-99936 Is it just me or does this not make sense? "Nobel Prize winners, in the fields of science and literature at least, are the celebrity equivalent of dark matter — the chances of becoming one increase significantly in <strong>inverse</strong> proportion to the complexity and obscurity of your work. So posing on red carpets or inside the pages of trashy sleb-mags is a no-no." If your chance of becoming a winner increases in inverse proportion to your obscurity, you would want to be as inobscure as possible, right? Otherwise you're just talking about regular ol' proportion. I think they just threw the word "inverse" in there because it sounded good, but it changes the whole meaning of that sentence. Someone at CNN needs to learn to edit. Is it just me or does this not make sense? "Nobel Prize winners, in the fields of science and literature at least, are the celebrity equivalent of dark matter — the chances of becoming one increase significantly in inverse proportion to the complexity and obscurity of your work. So posing on red carpets or inside the pages of trashy sleb-mags is a no-no."

If your chance of becoming a winner increases in inverse proportion to your obscurity, you would want to be as inobscure as possible, right? Otherwise you're just talking about regular ol' proportion. I think they just threw the word "inverse" in there because it sounded good, but it changes the whole meaning of that sentence. Someone at CNN needs to learn to edit.

]]> By: Tano http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/comment-page-1/#comment-99932 Tano Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:31:24 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/10/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/#comment-99932 Sorry, but I just find this CNN piece to be relentlessly, annoyingly dumb. Even the highlighted last point. That Americans, and men, have won the majority of the prizes does not mean that being American or a man will increase your probability of winning. Unless their is a claim that Americaness and maleness are significant factors used in choosing the winners. That doesnt seem to me to be the case, given that the winners are those who have clearly done interesting, understandable, and fundamental work in their respective fields (contra all the other points in this absurd piece), and thus clearly deserving. Sorry, but I just find this CNN piece to be relentlessly, annoyingly dumb.

Even the highlighted last point. That Americans, and men, have won the majority of the prizes does not mean that being American or a man will increase your probability of winning. Unless their is a claim that Americaness and maleness are significant factors used in choosing the winners. That doesnt seem to me to be the case, given that the winners are those who have clearly done interesting, understandable, and fundamental work in their respective fields (contra all the other points in this absurd piece), and thus clearly deserving.

]]> By: yetanotherjohn http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/comment-page-1/#comment-99904 yetanotherjohn Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:28:19 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2006/10/how_to_win_a_nobel_prize/#comment-99904 Several American men have been awarded Nobel prizes in the sciences the last couple of days Kinda makes you wonder what the Sumners protests were all about. Several American men have been awarded Nobel prizes in the sciences the last couple of days

Kinda makes you wonder what the Sumners protests were all about.

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