alt Hacker NewsThis paper is also this year's Ig Nobel Prize winner:
> Probability: A team of 50 researchers, for performing 350,757 experiments to show that when a coin is flipped, it is slightly more likely to land on the same side as it started.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners...
From this year's Iq:
Botany: Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita, for finding that certain plants imitate the leaf shape of nearby plastic plants and concluding that "plant vision" is plausible.
This somehow doesn't fit the Iq award in my mind.