Saturday, March 19, 2016

Correlation Games

Rats Depress People More Than Crime Does, Study Finds
People living in Baltimore's low-income neighborhoods who see rats as a big problem are significantly more likely to have depressive symptoms such as sadness and anxiety, the research finds.
 This study provides very strong evidence that rats are an underappreciated stressor that affects how people feel about their lives in low-income neighborhoods," German said.
My turn:

This is not about an unsightly neighborhood making people unhappy for fcks sake.
It's about germs.
Rats carry Toxoplasma, a neurotropic, psychoactive parasite associated with suicidal tendencies.
It's been causing human weirdness in crowded, unsanitary cities since the Ancient Egyptians.