Science Corner
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:03 pm
From the latest NE Journal, my wife left open to this article so I would see while consuming the morning cuppa joe:
( I can't link to the whole article, you'll have to hunt that down yourselves. It's just over two pages, worth a read.)
Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
http://richardfarner.newsvine.com/_news ... -laureates
"...
The only possible outlier in Figure 1 seems to be Sweden. Given its per capita chocolate consumption of 6.4 kg per year, we would predict that Sweden should have produced a total of about 14 Nobel laureates, yet we observe 32. Considering that in this instance the observed number exceeds the expected number by a factor of more than 2, one cannot quite escape the notion that either the Nobel Committee in Stockholm has some inherent patriotic bias when assessing the candidates for these awards or, perhaps, that the Swedes are particularly sensitive to chocolate, and even minuscule amounts greatly enhance their cognition.
...
CONCLUSIONS
Chocolate consumption enhances cognitive function, which is a sine qua non for winning the Nobel Prize, and it closely correlates with the number of Nobel laureates in each country. It remains to be determined whether the consumption of chocolate is the underlying mechanism for the observed association with improved cognitive function. ... "
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rubato
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( I can't link to the whole article, you'll have to hunt that down yourselves. It's just over two pages, worth a read.)
Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laureates
http://richardfarner.newsvine.com/_news ... -laureates
"...
The only possible outlier in Figure 1 seems to be Sweden. Given its per capita chocolate consumption of 6.4 kg per year, we would predict that Sweden should have produced a total of about 14 Nobel laureates, yet we observe 32. Considering that in this instance the observed number exceeds the expected number by a factor of more than 2, one cannot quite escape the notion that either the Nobel Committee in Stockholm has some inherent patriotic bias when assessing the candidates for these awards or, perhaps, that the Swedes are particularly sensitive to chocolate, and even minuscule amounts greatly enhance their cognition.
...
CONCLUSIONS
Chocolate consumption enhances cognitive function, which is a sine qua non for winning the Nobel Prize, and it closely correlates with the number of Nobel laureates in each country. It remains to be determined whether the consumption of chocolate is the underlying mechanism for the observed association with improved cognitive function. ... "
yrs,
rubato
(The place where I take some time out of the fruitful hours of my life to relieve the wretched and mentally infirm of some small part of their ignorance. You're welcome!)
