{"id":6601,"date":"2012-10-08T04:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2012-10-08T04:48:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T11:48:41","slug":"a-way-around-nobels-3-person-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/10\/08\/a-way-around-nobels-3-person-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"A way around Nobel&#039;s 3-person limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #550055\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/die.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6605\" title=\"die\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/die.jpg?resize=68%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Die illustrating probabilistic Nobel\" width=\"68\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMost\u00a0 fields of science have become increasingly collaborative over the last century, sometimes forcing the Nobel Prizes to unduly truncate the list of recipients, or neglect major discoveries involving\u00a0 more than three discoverers. In January we pointed out a possible escape from this predicament: choose three official laureates at random from a larger <span>list, then publish the entire list, along with the fact that the official winners had been chosen randomly from it. \u00a0The money of course would go to the three official winners, but public awareness that they were no more worthy than the others might induce them to share it. \u00a0A further refinement would be to use (and perhaps publish) weighted probabilities, allowing credit to be allocated unequally. \u00a0 If the Nobel Foundation&#8217;s lawyers could successfully argue that such randomization was consistent with Nobel&#8217;s will, the Prizes would better reflect the collaborative nature of modern science, at the same time lessening unproductive competition among \u00a0scientists to make it into the top three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Most\u00a0 fields of science have become increasingly collaborative over the last century, sometimes forcing the Nobel Prizes to unduly truncate the list of recipients, or neglect major discoveries involving\u00a0 more than three discoverers. In January we pointed out a possible escape from this predicament: choose three official laureates at random from a larger list, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/10\/08\/a-way-around-nobels-3-person-limit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A way around Nobel&#039;s 3-person limit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}