So, The Straits Times carried this article "SMU researcher wins an Ig Nobel prize for 'improbable research'":
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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.
Such a scientist, this Lee Kuan Yew.
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