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SOUNDING BOARD
Friday, September 19, 2003
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This week's pick: nose picking
Between Ms. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's gloating over the forthcoming visit of George W. Bush to the Philippines and anti-US protests, it's quite amusing to be (willingly) side-tracked by interesting news on.... errr nose picking?
Marc Abrahams, founder of Ig Nobel Prizes, has come up with the book 'The Ig Nobel Prizes: The Annals of Improbable Research'. The book offers insight into some of the most bizarre research ever presented, among them is on nose picking among adolescents.
The 2001 report found that nose picking is the same across social classes. They also found that about 80 percent of teenagers do it exclusively with their fingers while the rest are split almost evenly between using tweezers and pencils as their excavator of choice. Delving deeper, the good doctors found about 50 percent of people pick to unclog their nose, 11 percent do so for cosmetic reasons while a similar number does it just for fun. (Reuters 18 September 2003)
Hmmm... I will never look at pencils and tweezers the same way again, ever.
posted by Allan at 1:02 PM (GMT+8)
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