Ig Nobel 2019 awarded for research teaching surgeons like teaching animals

The Ig Nobel Prize, the "fake Nobel Prize" for bizarre inventions, has been awarded to a researcher on how to train a surgeon as easily as a pet.

The list of winners of Ig Nobel 2019 also includes two Dutch and Turkish researchers for discovering which country has the most sticky notes.

In addition, this year's "Nobel Prize" also features an Italian scientist who claims to have healthy pizza, an Iranian engineer who has just registered an invention in the US for diaper changing machines and a chemist. Japanese study measures the average daily amount of saliva flow from 5-year-old children.

Ig Nobel was attended by many "real Nobel" laureates including Rich Roberts (Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993), Eric Maskin (Nobel Prize in Economics in 2007), and Jerome Friedman (Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990).(Photo: AP).

The most shocking work in this year's awards is probably the work of Karen Pryor, Theresa McKeon and I. Martin Levy.

The scientists point out that the general techniques used for animal training, called outcome conditioning training or behavioral training with a clicker , can be used to train surgeons. .

With this hypothesis, the click device that makes a little click sound, often used to train pets, can be applied to reinforce the "positive behaviors" of apprentices.

"Traditionally, experienced surgeons will accompany younger doctors and they often make miserable pupils , " Pryor said, adding that this training creates stress for young doctors and leads to psychology. fear of failure.

Japanese scientist Shigeru Watanabe was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his study of measuring the average amount of saliva in a day of a 5-year-old child.(Photo: AP).

"With our method, they can learn to use the tool more confidently and calmly, become more comfortable people , " she said.

The work of Pryor and his associates is a thorough scientific research. It was published in the Journal of Osteoarthritis and Similar Studies in 2015.

The experimental process shows that doctors trained by their methods perform surgeries with greater accuracy.

Ig Nobel is an annual award for strange and incredible research. The 29th awards ceremony was held at Harvard University with the winners of the "real Nobel Prize" scientists .

Participants were happy with the event's traditional funny jokes.

The audience threw the paper plane on stage as one of the many funny jokes that became the tradition of Ig Nobel.(Photo: AP).

The winner was awarded a prize of Zimbabwean $ 10,000 billion, which was no longer valid after the African nation fell into hyperinflation.

Each person can speak for a prize within 1 minute. When the time is up, an 8-year-old girl will cry and say, "I'm so bored, please stop talking".

This year's ceremony also included a tribute to scientist Roy Glauber, who won the Physics Prize in 2005. He died in December 2018 at the age of 93.

Glauber is famous for his sense of humor and humility. He was a familiar face at Ig Nobel ceremonies for many years and always stayed at the end of the program to help clean up.

1. Research on the networked humanoid that won the Ig Nobel 2018 prize