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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by jgg on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:47AM (#7616915)
...this is meant to be funny, right?
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by lambda on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:03AM (#7616961)
Yes.

http://www.statschat.org.nz/2012/10/12/theres-nothing-like-a...

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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by greenyoda on Sunday April 20, 2014 @04:17PM (#7618324)
Yes, but unfortunately, a lot of the "serious" studies reported in newspapers every day seem to follow the same formula: find an accidental correlation between two causally unrelated variables and say you've found an amazing new result.
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by jgg on Sunday April 20, 2014 @04:31PM (#7618375)
Well...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2012/10/10/chocolate...

http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/12/can-eating-chocolate-h...

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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by aioprisan on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:54AM (#7617192)
It was published in the "Occasional Notes" section of the journal, not as a scientific article.
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by samstave on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:19AM (#7617028)
Feeling smugly smart as I sit here easter morning eating chocolate with my kid for breakfast!
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by stretchwithme on Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:59AM (#7616950)
Maybe smarter people are more able to afford chocolate.
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by 001sky on Sunday April 20, 2014 @12:27PM (#7617358)
"The present data are based on country averages, and the specific chocolate intake of individual Nobel laureates of the past and present remains unknown."
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by nickbauman on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:19AM (#7617026)
This is a joke, right?
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by dylandrop on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:34AM (#7617104)
Yeah, look at the footnotes at the end:

"Dr. Messerli reports regular daily chocolate consumption, mostly but not exclusively in the form of Lindt’s dark varieties"

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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by gaelow on Sunday April 20, 2014 @07:43PM (#7618919)
correlation does not imply causality
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by okonomiyaki3000 on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:12AM (#7616996)
tl;dr - should I be eating more chocolate?
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Re:Chocolate Consumption, Cognitive Function, and Nobel Laur... by CoffeeDregs on Sunday April 20, 2014 @11:13AM (#7616999)
If the question is "chocolate", the answer is "yes".
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