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“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings

Freakonomics Radio

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Is There a Relationship Between Sugar and Hyper Activity in Children?

There have been hundreds of studies in to relat sugar intake with hyper activity in children, and nobody can do it like there appears to be no relationship at all between whether your kid has had sugar and how nuts they are. It's academically uumprovable. You just happen to see your kids running around a lot at a place where they just had birthday cake, and you think, ah, see, sugar rush is not real. I find the issues of corelate s causality. The human brain is really not well equipped to separate those two. And appearants are at the front of the line when it comes to confusing correlation and causalitya ha, ha, ha. A...

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