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Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer
mernil sends in an article from the NYTimes that casts a glance at a study done in the Czech Republic (natch) on what divides the successful scientists from the duffers. "Ever since there have been scientists, there have been those who are wildly successful, publishing one well-received paper after another, and those who are not. And since nearly the same time, there have been scholars arguing over what makes the difference. What is it that turns one scientist into more of a Darwin and another into more of a dud? After years of argument over the roles of factors like genius, sex, and dumb luck, a new study shows that something entirely unexpected and considerably sudsier may be at play in determining the success or failure of scientists — beer."
Scientists' Success Or Failure Correlated With Beer
Oddly enough, that finding carries over to Hookers, as well.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
I've never published any peer reviewed papers, and I drink plenty of beer, so it must be true [burp].
I really ought to read TFA more often. The reserve turns out to be true, didn't see that one coming..
The reserve turns out to be true
Enjoying a little beer tonight, are we?
In Czech republic, beer is not a drink of lower classes at all. It is a national drink consumed by almost everyone, people from all classes, from the poor to the country's president. However, wine is popular in the southeast part of the country (Moravia), because it is a traditional wine region. May be, Moravians are mor intelligent than people from the other parts of the country? :) I do not know. But certainly they have more beautiful girls there :) May be more sex means better science :D
SHE does throw dice.
In order to find out if beer is good or bad for scientists, I have to read the article?
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"It's rather devastating to be told we should drink less beer in order to increase our scientific performance," Dr. Symonds said.
Ok, this is perhaps the most widely disseminated scientific concept among the laity, so to see an "evolutionary biologist" cock it up so readily is pretty disheartening.
All together now: correlation does not imply causation!
sic transit gloria mundi
ahh. good to see that next years Ig-Nobels are already hotting up.
I'll drink to that.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
Repeat after me:
Coroloshn...
Corrorro...
Corrorashnisnotcausashn.
There. I sssayed it.
:)
Is crushing a suspect's child's testicles illegal?
John Yoo: "No, [if] the President thinks he needs to do that."
He had a house with a faucet that gave fresh beer - just next door to the Carlsberg brewery.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
But what about the Ballmer Peak?
Hehe, ornithologists drinking beer are more likely to fall down from trees, and therefore less likely to produce scientific papers.
I like microwave pizza. Does that make me stupid?
I prefer not to answer that because it is well known that people like you are prone to violence due to your stunted intellect.
You probably had George Orwell (1946) in mind: "A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks."
Could you elaborate (in under 100 words, mind you) what kind of correlation you might have found between good music and Aerosmith? Or was that just a non sequitur for rhetoric effect?
A World in a Grain of Sand / Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the Palm of your Hand / And Eternity in an Hour.
He's talking about his back-up beer....
"All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
It's not that simple. You can't just compare the Danish møøse with the Canadian moose.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
No, I'm New Here
That's why I'm a writer, not a scientist.
Almost all of the great writers were heavy drinkers.
Woo-Hoo!!
Serving your airship needs since 1995.
The correct question is, what are the odds a pub will be within a couple blocks of your LAB.
There's a pub across the street from mine. That parking lot is awfully big though.
Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers.