There’s an odd connection between eating more chocolate and winning the Nobel Prize

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1. it is called GDP per capita

2. Theobromine is a hell of a drug

3. Correlation at best. Not a connection.

4. I think it anti-correlates better with distance from Sweden.

5. It really helps, it really does.

6. It’s called depression. Smart people usually struggle with it

7. It’s called the economy of respect.

8. People in the countries that drink the most milk are far more likely to break their hip than people in countries that drink the least milk.

   That is because most people who break their hip slip on ice, and you slip on ice more in nordic countries than tropical ones.

9. Remember folks: Corelation = Causation!

10. Low effort correlation clickbait

11. Correlation =/= causation

12. https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/image/1522_the-distance-between-saturn-and-the-sun_correlates-with_google-searches-for-how-to-make-baby.svg

13. It has more to do with the early history of the award only going to European countries.

14. Hmm what’s the confounding variables here and the actual causality here? GDP per capita?

15. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. Data mining relates unrelated things. Is Estonia on the full image? They have high chocolate consumption and no Nobel Prizes.

16. worst post in the histoy of this sub

17. They just tried giving UNRWA the Nobel peace prize. So now the conditions are eating chocolate and terrorism.

18. Is this not pay-walled for anyone else?