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Episode 100: The Good Old Days Weren’t All That Good

Words & Numbers

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Researchers from the University of Colorado in Boulder tested 1,500 undergraduate students and Discovered that a number of them were infected with a cat-borne parasite Toxoplasmagondii. The students who were infected with the parasite were 1.4 to 1.7 times more likely to be studying management or some sort of entrepreneurial discipline. Researchers also studied 200 professionals who were attending Entrepreneurship events and they found that amongst those people those who were infected were almost twice as likely to have started their own businesses than other attendees. So apparently there's something about owning cats and getting infected with this parasite causes people to become entrepreneurial Something tells me that's gonna prove not to be the correct answer

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