There is compelling evidence from the New England Journal of Medicine that countries that eat more chocolate produce more Nobel prize winners.
I tried to follow the links in the article to see how they measured chocolate consumption. Unlike many of my friends, I strongly prefer milk chocolate to dark chocolate.
At any rate, the correlation is bound to lead to considerable discussion about cause and effect.
Greetings:
ToblerBALoneY.
If it is chocolate that makes the Nobel laureate, then there would be more places to buy chocolate bagels, boiled of course.
Take care,
JB
Posted by: J. Baskette | October 17, 2012 at 08:55 PM
"One observational basis for inferring that Ashkenazi Jews have high intelligence is their prevalence in intellectually demanding fields. While Ashkenazi Jews make up only about 3% of the U.S. population[1] and 0.2% of the world population,[6] 27% of United States Nobel prize winners in the 20th century,[1] a quarter of Fields Medal winners,[7] 25% of ACM Turing Award winners,[1] half the world's chess champions,[1] and a quarter of Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners[7] have Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. However, such statistics do not rule out factors other than intelligence, such as institutional biases and social networks.[citation needed]
A more direct approach is to measure intelligence with psychometric tests. Different studies have found different results, but most have found above-average verbal and mathematical intelligence in Ashkenazi Jews, along with below-average spatial intelligence.[8][9][10] Some studies have found IQ scores amongst Ashkenazi Jews to be a fifth to one full standard deviation above average in mathematical and verbal tests."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jewish_intelligence
And it's all down to chocolate. Amazing.
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Chocolate and the Jews
http://www.nwfam.com/chocolate.html
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Baruch atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech haolam, borei p’ri ha’eitz.
Posted by: Joshua | October 18, 2012 at 04:42 AM