Thursday, January 18, 2007

Do prizes matter?

I find that I am more and more wrong. I used to think that one should work on things that interested one and prizes and such are irrelevant distractions. Apparently prizes matter since often some status comes with them. Even blogs seem to look for number of hits, rank etc ( I do not know how to check most of these). From New Scientist:
"Scientists who have won a Nobel prize live nearly two years longer than those who were merely nominated, according to a new study. The findings suggest that social status confers "health-giving magic", the researchers say."

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