Thursday, October 11, 2012

Correlation Games

Researcher links chocolate eating to Nobel prizes
Not surprisingly, Switzerland "was the top performer in terms of both the number of Nobel laureates and chocolate consumption," wrote Messerli, who said he obtained figures on chocolate consumption from manufacturers.
However he then notes this.
Sweden, which consumes 6.4 kilos of chocolate per capita per year, was an exception. Based on this rate of consumption "we would predict that Sweden should have produced a total of about 14 Nobel laureates, yet we observe 32."
Funny how that blows your whole theory but you don't care...

My turn-  chocolate activates herpes viruses which are psychoactive.  It's very possible this is a sign of brain infection.
Huh.