Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Government has too much time on its hands and not enough to do, Chapter CXVI

The Ig Nobel prizes have been announced - think of them as the Nobel Prize for stupid research - and the U.S. Government is a winner!
LITERATURE PRIZE: The US Government General Accountability Office, for issuing a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.

REFERENCE: "Actions Needed to Evaluate the Impact of Efforts to Estimate Costs of Reports and Studies," US Government General Accountability Office report GAO-12-480R, May 10, 2012.
Me, I'm taking a suitably skeptical view on this, of course.  I'm waiting for a report about reports about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.  Mustn't rush to judgement, eh?  Until then, there's just too much uncertainty.

I mean, p > 0.05 and everything.  Srlsy.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Almost as good as my "Form to Request Request Forms Request Form" - that I created when a state employee.