Business students more likely to have a brain parasite spread by cats

New Scientist ^ | Jul 25, 2018 | By New Scientist staff and Press Association

[Eddie01]

In case anyone was getting tired of Russia and Media Fraud...

Thanks goodness I graduated BSEE Microprocessor Architecture and we don't own a cat.

You MBA types better watch out though. lol.

[rlmorel]

LOL, it does kind of make one snicker a bit...

Well, back to Russia, Russia, Russia!

[MarMema]

Excellent book that will blow you away.

"This is your brain on Parasites".

These tiny critters are amazing and then some.

[Jamestown1630]

Correlation = Causation?

Scientists seem 90.5% more likely to suffer from tunnel vision...

[Buckeye McFrog]

If that were true those Crazy Cat Ladies would be running Wall Street.

[Yo-Yo]

Well, that would certainly explain Catbert.

[faithhopecharity]

so capitalism is a proven disease now, eh?

HA!

very amusing...thanks for sharing... ha!

[9YearLurker]

Apparently—and I’m serious, I’ve read this previously—it affects men and women quite differently.

[wally_bert]

The PHB even more so.

[blam]

My dad would not allow a cat near our home. He and mom both said that they'd always heard that you can catch 'bad' things from cats. They were both raised in farming families.
We always had dogs. If my dad were still alive, he'd be 100 this year. Click on my name to see my dogs.

[StormEye]

"Now an assessment of almost 1300 US students has found
that those who had been exposed to the parasite were 1.7
times more likely to be majoring in business. In particular,
they were more likely to be focusing on management
and entrepreneurship than other business-related areas."

Well if these parasites causes you to become a billionaire
and then win the presidency of the USA, I'll take two of them.

[Eddie01]

wow. that picture takes me back to the 90s.

i’m in the second floor office of Pyxis Medical in San Diego and Chris Farley just died

[Eddie01]

Happy looking bunch ...like they were posing for the camera.

:)

[Migraine]

Scientists seem 90.5% more likely to suffer from tunnel vision...

And of those 90.5% with tunnel vision, 100% suffer from agendamania.

It reminds me of how the Federal Bureau of Investigation has become 90% bureau and only 10% investigation (of the legitimate sort).

[ameribbean expat]

Some jackass is going to produce and market this as a supplement for b school students.

[Snickering Hound]

So...crazy comes AFTER collecting all the cats.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’ve heard it’s really, really bad for a pregnant woman to contract this.

[PsyCon]

This looks to be junk science and little more than a fishing expedition. If anyone has access to the full text I'd appreciate a copy.

Seems to infer aggression => entrepreneur and wish to be entrepreneurs.

[faithhopecharity]

Savage says liberalism is a mental disorder. So now capitalism is a mental disease. Ha! Nobody wants to take responsibility for anything anymore. We’re all helpless victims of medical conditions, our parentage, or our race. Ha!

[thoughtomator]

> Some studies have linked infection with the parasite to slower reaction times, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, suicidal behaviour, and explosive anger

You can “link” cat ownership to all of those as well.