Originally Posted by
corrado33
This is an odd study. For those of you too lazy to click the link, they measured how much people blew up balloons while wearing helmets vs. baseball caps. The people who wore bike helmets inflated the balloons more. Considering the proximity of the balloons to people's faces, I can see why they got the results they did. I'd like to see the same study done with the balloon blow up via a tube near their waist.
In BART (Balloon Analogue Risk Task) - you *pretend* to blow up *pretend* balloons. (Think video game.)
In this paper, you *pretend* while wearing a baseball cap *or* a bicycle helmet while the researchers *pretended* to track the subject's eyes with a disabled eye tracker.
Frankly, "brilliant" work. I've come to expect this quality of work from Walker, (the clown suit study was also "brilliant"), and this paper does not disappoint.
Meanwhile, back at the everlasting gobstopper thread....
-mr. bill