Example #151 Was taken from page #56 from Strange Science-Portable Press.
According to the Latest Research
* In a 2009 study by Oxford University, scientists gave a group of ducks full access to a pond, a water trough, and a shower. They found shat the ducks preferred standing under the shower to standing in still water. The three-year study cost more than half a million dollars.
* In 2003 researchers at Plymouth University in England studied primate intelligence by giving macaque monkeys a computer. They reported that the monkeys attacked the machine, threw feces at it, and contrary to their hopes, failed to produce a single word.
* In 2001 scientists at Cambridge University studied kinetic energy, centrifugal force, and the coefficient of friction; to determine the least messy way to eat spaghetti.
* Researchers at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest analyzed videos of the “wave” at sporting events. Results: it almost always moves clockwise around the stadium, travels at abouts 40 feet per second, and the average width of a wave was 15 rows of seats.
* A 2002 study by the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Vermont found that studies are often misleading.
NO COMMON SENSE
ANALYZE THE EXAMPLE
* Which supports and barriers were at play?
* What were the dynamics?
* Who, or what, won the “Tug-of-War”?
* Discuss the outcome with your friends and family.
* Use Post #4 as a reference for the relationships and dynamics between supports and barriers.