Posted on 07/27/2018 12:34:25 PM PDT by Eddie01
An analysis of students in the US has found that those who have a certain type of brain parasite are more likely to be majoring in business studies.
Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite carried by cats. It can infect people through contact with cat faeces, poorly cooked meat, or contaminated water, and as many as one-third of the world’s population may be infected. The parasite doesn’t make us feel sick, but it forms cysts in the brain where it can remain for the rest of a person’s life. Some studies have linked infection with the parasite to slower reaction times, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, suicidal behaviour, and explosive anger.
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.
The study also found that professionals attending business events were almost twice as likely to have started their own business if they were T. gondii positive, and that countries with a higher prevalence of T. gondii infection show more entrepreneurial activity.
The team behind the study say their data suggests that the parasite may be involved in reducing a person’s fear of failure and high-risk, high-reward ventures.
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Thanks goodness I graduated BSEE Microprocessor Architecture and we don't own a cat.
You MBA types better watch out though. lol.
LOL, it does kind of make one snicker a bit...
Well, back to Russia, Russia, Russia!
"This is your brain on Parasites".
These tiny critters are amazing and then some.
Correlation = Causation?
Scientists seem 90.5% more likely to suffer from tunnel vision...
If that were true those Crazy Cat Ladies would be running Wall Street.
so capitalism is a proven disease now, eh?
HA!
very amusing...thanks for sharing... ha!
Apparently—and I’m serious, I’ve read this previously—it affects men and women quite differently.
The PHB even more so.
Well if these parasites causes you to become a billionaire
and then win the presidency of the USA, I'll take two of them.
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
Happy looking bunch ...like they were posing for the camera.
:)
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).
Some jackass is going to produce and market this as a supplement for b school students.
So...crazy comes AFTER collecting all the cats.
I’ve heard it’s really, really bad for a pregnant woman to contract this.
Seems to infer aggression => entrepreneur and wish to be entrepreneurs.
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!
> 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.
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