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this is exactly like when someone makes a massive assumption based on geographical data that, when visualised, is just a representation of population density.
how often do these kinds of folk claim that Democrats are unpopular because "most of America is red" and all they're showing is the population density of cities vs rural counties.
and before anyone calls it "Hank's razor" no i wont credit a white lib zionist for coming to the conclusion that people have poor data comprehension.
You can't even get a cheap chocolate anymore, only the fake one made from margarine.
it's basically that countries that have won most of the modern nobel prizes eat chocolate based on their purchasing power of chocolate, and the older countries that used to dominate basically have no relation between their current chocolate consumption rate and their historic nobel prizes (this is a very bad oversimplification as this graph is just very shite).
i think the graph is just a joke but it's basically constructed to confuse people based on the only two data points everyone cares about, which is the maximum (switzerland) and the minimum (china)
Heavy metals, including lead, found in many dark chocolate bars, research shows
Yummy lead makes whitey big brain
i member cadmium being kinda native problem, and lead pollution problem
Previous research has found that lead and cadmium can enter dark chocolate through different ways. Cadmium comes primarily through the cacao plant’s taking it up from the soil, while lead can be introduced at various points in the manufacturing process, including the harvesting, drying and fermenting of the cocoa bean.
yay, memory for useless shit
Patently false, I love chocolate and I'm dumb as rocks
One of the Norwegian Nobel prize winners re-gifted it to Hitler lol
Was that Knut Hamsun? Let's hope it was only one.
Hamsun's novels are actually really great. I haven't seen the biopic so maybe he went bad earlier than I think, but if only he'd dropped dead the day he won his Nobel instead of living another 32 years.
Hamsun, yeah.
austria padding it's numbers huh
EDIT: I believe that my kneejerk reaction of immediately assuming that "rich countries can afford luxuries like chocolate in larger quantities and also have more money to spend on universities along with better relationships with the people deciding who gets these awards" is correct and these people have to be acting in bad faith.
Like, chocolate makes you smarter seems like a wild leap to make.
I don't know who this guy is, but this is clearly a joke, no? It's just a funny spurious correlation.
that this (10.1056/NEJMon1211064) is published is a joke, yes.
germany is oafmaxxing
Growing up in Germany, one of the most commonly repeated reasons 
was supposedly an awful socialist hellhole is that chocolate was too rare and expensive 
are these bozos really eating like 10-12 kg per year?
like goddam. that's rocking like half a pound per week. that seems pretty high for a national average. is it like in condiment bottles and they just blast it on everything?
I like chocolate, but like what are they doing. seems compulsive.
20mil people visit Switzerland every year while the pop is around 8mil and those same tourists buy a shitton of chocolate because 'gotta have actual swiss chocolate' which pumps up the number a ton. I've seen tour buses of tourists get into a store to buy 3kg of chocolates per person.
ok, that/chocolate tourists I can wrap my head around.
wow a bunch of small countries that gave themselves nobel prizes in 1902 have a lot of nobel prizes per 10 million population.
Ice cream and murder have a correlation. I found that out day 2 in a psych 101 class. The cause was a third variable - summer time and people are out around each other.
Suggesting that ice cream had something to do with it is illustrated to be baby brained by the lesson. So, ironically just as illustratively - going so far as to keep the theme in tact, suggesting chocolate had something to do with the nobel prizes is baby brained.
He's misinterpreting the data, the actual cause behind the correlation is that most Nobel prize winners choose to use the money to eat a bunch of chocolate
What do you think the medals are made out of.
Is there are correlation between a country being European and receiving many Nobel Prizes? No, China just clearly isn't as good at doing stuff as Portugal.
There's also this funny correlation about how many colonies a country has had and the popularity of their museums. So interesting.
Where'd the chocolate come from?
Where’d the chocolate come from motherfucker?
new guy idea:
racist guy who thinks westerners are smarter than people from the global south, not because of some inherent trait, but because they stole all the chocolate
Yeah so weird that the biggest beneficiaries of the plunder of the Global south are also over represented in the west-centric prizes, and whose cultures place a lot of value on the consumption of products of said plunder.
Gift from God.
Trump is set to get the prize and you don't see his ass eating a snickers.
No way, imperialist countries are more likely to have its people rewarded by an imperialist-controlled committee? Say it ain't so!
Sweden 
An MD literally doing the thing where you make the jump from correlation to causation is extremely embarrassing. 🫤
but it's also like: who the hell have money to finance fundamental research? oh, look it's nazi gold central, who would've thunk (and also cern is there) 
