Vegetarians More Intelligent Than Meat Eaters
A scientific, statistically valid study of thousands of men and women reveals that vegetarians are more intelligent than meat-eaters. The results, published in the British Medical Journal, tracked 8,000 test participants over 20 years.
Not only are vegetarians' IQs higher, but they are significantly higher (about 5 percent). Further, vegetarians are much more likely to have gained degrees and held down "high-powered" jobs.
Vegans, it might be added, scored significantly lower than vegetarians eating dairy products. And, anyone who knows me knows cheese constitutes the first layer of my personal food pyramid.
The results are no surprise to me. Since turning vegetarian in 2000 I've found I feel lighter, eat more, weigh less, possess significantly lower body fat, get sick (colds, flu, etc.) much less often, think more clearly and generally feel better overall since eliminating red meat, chicken, pork and turkey from my diet.
What I'd like to see next is a study showing the intelligence levels of vegetarian Mac users. As I've reported before, Mac users, too, have been statistically shown to be more creative, and more intelligent, than Windows users.
;-)
Not only are vegetarians' IQs higher, but they are significantly higher (about 5 percent). Further, vegetarians are much more likely to have gained degrees and held down "high-powered" jobs.
Vegans, it might be added, scored significantly lower than vegetarians eating dairy products. And, anyone who knows me knows cheese constitutes the first layer of my personal food pyramid.
The results are no surprise to me. Since turning vegetarian in 2000 I've found I feel lighter, eat more, weigh less, possess significantly lower body fat, get sick (colds, flu, etc.) much less often, think more clearly and generally feel better overall since eliminating red meat, chicken, pork and turkey from my diet.
What I'd like to see next is a study showing the intelligence levels of vegetarian Mac users. As I've reported before, Mac users, too, have been statistically shown to be more creative, and more intelligent, than Windows users.
;-)
posted by Erik Eckel at 10:37 AM
2 Comments:
The Mac popoulation is already too small for a statistically valid sample. Slicing it even further to vegetarian Mac users would be a meaningless study :-)
Hey, it's up to 5% now! At least we surpassed Linux again on the desktop...
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