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People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds (rd.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the that-explains-so-much dept.

A new study conducted at the University of Innsbruck in Austria finds that people who drink their coffee black often has psychopathic or sadistic traits. The study surveyed more than 1,000 adults about their taste preferences with foods and drinks that are bitter. They also took four different personality tests that assessed traits like narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, and aggression. From a report: Researchers found a trend that suggested a correlation between preferences for black coffee, and other bitter tastes, and sadistic or psychopathic personality traits. They also found that people who enjoyed milky or sugary coffee, and other sweet flavors, generally tended to have more "agreeable" personality traits like sympathy, cooperation, and kindness. The closest correlation found in the study was between bitter foods, like radishes and tonic water, and "everyday sadism," or the enjoyment of inflicting moderate levels of pain on others. The researchers went further, suggesting that this association between bitter foods and psychopathic tendencies could "become chronic" and get worse with time.

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  1. This is stupid junk science. by Hey_Jude_Jesus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This kind of BS discredits the entire scientific community.

    1. Re:This is stupid junk science. by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Translation: we found a tenuous statistical correlation that will make for an awesome headline.

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    2. Re:This is stupid junk science. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      There's nothing less "hard" about correlating data in civics as physics, in fact the same rules apply. The only question is how much more complex the data is involving human behavior as opposed to particle/wave behavior.

      If you discount any information out of hand because you think the result is "bad science" but you don't actually have a method of critique, you are not a scientist or operating in that field at all, just a tourist.

  2. Re:As a black coffee drinker by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Those who can't drink their coffee neat shouldn't be counted as coffee drinkers. If you like milky drinks with a splash of coffee, fine, but please don't call the whole thing coffee. It's like saying "I'm a C programmer, but I don't really know much C, I only use it via the Python interpreter".

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  3. Re:psudoscience masquerading as real science by youngone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Economists are more like priests than scientists. Economics is just another stupid religion.

  4. Re:Good to know for job interviews. by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When coffee is bad, I do take both cream and sugar. In a job interview I’m likely going to assume any proferred coffee is going to be bad, so...

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  5. Re:As a black coffee drinker by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also, most people's experience with black coffee is Folgers or similar low quality grounds that are much closer to loose dirt or discarded pencil shavings than it is to coffee. Get some good beans that you grind yourself and prepare appropriately and black coffee can have a wonderful flavor profile that needs no additives to enjoy.