SMU researcher wins Ig Nobel prize for 'improbable research'. Lee Kuan Yew won it in 1994.

Lee Kuan Yew was the 1994 Ig Nobel Prize Winner for Pyschology.

Belmont Lay| October 06, 05:45 PM

So, The Straits Times carried this article "SMU researcher wins an Ig Nobel prize for 'improbable research'":

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Assistant Professor of Finance Gennaro Bernile won an Ig Nobel Prize for his "research on the influence of early-life disasters on the behaviour of chief executive officers". http://str.sg/Z6hvPHOTO: SMU

Posted by The Straits Times on Tuesday, October 6, 2015

 

From the article:

An assistant professor from the Singapore Management University (SMU) has won the 2015 Ig Nobel Prize, becoming the only Singapore-based researcher on this year's list of 10 winners.

The Ig Nobel Prize is a parody of the Nobel prize awards given out every year at Harvard University in the United States, and is awarded to "improbable research... that makes people laugh and then think".

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Assistant Professor of Finance Gennaro Bernile, from the SMU Lee Kong Chian School of Business, clinched a prize in the Management category for his research on the influence of early-life disasters on the behaviour of chief executive officers.

He had found that many business leaders who experienced natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, or wildfires, developed a fondness for risk-taking in their childhood, if the disasters had no dire personal consequences for them.

 

However, what ST left out was that Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew was also a previous winner.

In 1994, Lee Kuan Yew won the Ig Nobel Prize Winner for Psychology.

This was why his research was a winner:

PSYCHOLOGY: Lee Kuan Yew, former Prime Minister of Singapore, practitioner of the psychology of negative reinforcement, for his thirty-year study of the effects of punishing three million citizens of Singapore whenever they spat, chewed gum, or fed pigeons.

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Such a scientist, this Lee Kuan Yew.

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