High IQ for vegetarians?!
High IQ for vegetarians?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20061215/hl_...
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As a meat eating, low brow Neanderthal... but the math is kind of funny.
I find it amusing that 33.6% of the 4.5% reported vegetarians ate chicken and fish. That sure sounds like an omnivore to me.
Also, the article stated, "There was no difference in IQ score between strict vegetarians and those who said they were vegetarian but who said they ate fish or chicken, the researchers add."
Sounds like the article is just stating that you can be an omnivore or a vegetarian and end up with the same score.
I could have predicted that more women were reported "As the study showed, more women than men chose a vegetarian diet..." since more women are typically concerned with animal welfare than men.
I believe vegetarianism has become a fad in our popular culture and this report is just showing that this is true.
A meat eating vegetarian... how funny!
If you take out the meat eating vegetarians, that's only 3% of the 8200 that are true vegeatrians (246 people).
Also, did the adult (30 y.o.) eat meat while they were growing up?
The argument could be made that all of the brain function and growth occurred while they were maturing and stopped after puberty. Maybe the consumption of meat is critical during those developing years.
They need to ask questions about the children's diet. Who knows maybe they'll find out that children that ate a vegetarian diet at an early age actually had a decrease in IQ by age 30?
Yes.
This is about the 7th question about this in two days. There is a search bar on the top of your screen if your interested in people's reaction to this topic.
My reply to that is two-fold. First that's great, but also.... it could be that children with higher IQ's can take in information and act on it. They can read that meat is bad for you and then stop eating meat, smoking is bad for you and then not smoke. Doesn't this seem like an alternate possibility.
Sadly, the study seems to be bunk as “vegetarians” (in this study) include people who eat chicken or fish. Chicken and fish are animals; if a person eats the flesh of animals he or she is not a vegetarian. This isn't a judgment, but the very definition of vegetarianism. It was a good idea in theory, but people should know their subject matter before going through faulty efforts.
That study doesn't show anything new anyway. The fact has always been that intelligent people are more likely to become vegetarian, and similarly that the council housed, binge drinking, smoking, thick-as-two-short-planks segment of the population aren't likely to give two figs about the issue. It doesn't show that vegetarianism increases intelligence and other studies have shown that it doesn't at all. In fact I think you'll find it you look at the people of similar IQs at ten, they'd end up with similar IQs at 30, regardless of diet. There is no evidence showing that it increases IQ and I find saying that more intelligent people are more likely to go veg a pointless argument, especially considering in this study the proprtion of vegetarians in the high IQ portion wasn't that much higher than in the others.