People are trying new ways to try to educate the public, in the vexed year 2020, about health care and safety. This video is, perhaps, a bold experiment: (Thanks to @Beccanalia for bringing this to our attention.)
Tag: clown
On the nature of creepiness (study)
“Surprisingly, until now there has never been an empirical study of ‘creepiness’ “ This situation was rectified by Professor Francis T. McAndrew and Sara S. Koehnke of the Department of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, US, in a 2016 paper for the journal New Ideas in Psychology. The team stopped short of giving an exact definition […]
Of Bunnies and Clowns in the Wards
In case you missed this April Fools study: “Randomized Trial of Facilitated Family-Centered Rounds,” Brian K. Alverson, Karen M. Wilson and Samir S. Shah, Hospital Pediatrics, 2013;3;156. The authors, at Brown University, the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, explain, sort of: “Family-centered rounds (FCR) are becoming […]
Calculations: Insurance for clowns
Clown insurance is for clowns, not for persons potentially afflicted by them. Insurance companies offer it to clowns because clowns – no matter what you may thoughtlessly think of them – are people, and bad things can happen to anyone. Clown insurance exists, as a distinct product category, thanks to the mathematical discipline called risk assessment. […]
