Researchers at the University of Sydney have concluded a four-year, cross-disciplinary investigation into the capacity of inanimate frisbees to ‘lie.’
The working group included experts and PhD’s from the fields of physics, law, sociology, mathematics and english literature. Their goal was to comprehensively interrogate the phrase ‘Discs don’t lie,’ through a series of rigorous experiments and abstract critical thinking.
IOU understands that the study was strictly confined to 175g Ultra-Stars, but that further research may also look at Innova Pulsars and those weird short-lipped frisbees we all got at AMUC 2016.
The findings of the study have been considered groundbreaking by the Ultimate Frisbee community. The phrase ‘Discs don’t lie,’ is a deeply cherished, smugly-delivered go-to for players across the world—it is generally said when a turnover follows a contentious call, implying some higher-level karmic retribution for lying.
Conclusive proof that frisbees indeed cannot lie in any way, was just one of two major results to come from the research. The second, hidden away in a footnote of the Appendix, said that, ‘Human beings are perfectly capable and highly skilled at lying for personal gain.’ Though decidedly less catchy, this has also been considered groundbreaking by the Ultimate Frisbee community.
Discs don’t lie, but people do.
Updates to follow.