Infections Correlate with Entrepreneurship
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Infections Correlate with Entrepreneurship
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#2interesting.
On the one hand, the correlation could be suprious (I've heard the correlation between eating chocolate and winning Nobel Prizes as an example of this), on the other hand, there have been studies linking Toxoplasmosis with schizophrenia and traffic accidents.
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#3Hmmm that paper seems to have a suspiciously low number of citations though
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#4Another exemplary paper of why you need to beware of reversed causality. Since infection with T. Gondii is much more likely if you are less cautious with food and animals, it is very much possible that the causal link is actually reversed. It's also worth pointing out that current research has cast major doubt on the old idea that toxoplasmosis causes any psychological effects in humans [1]. While it might sound cool that there could be a parasite out there that changes your behaviour like in a zombie movie and papers like these will get easy media attention, take this stuff with a massive grain of salt.
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#6Is it trying to prove that a paper doesn't need to be any good to get published, or did I miss something? Genuinely interested: I skimmed through it and it seems like a hoax to me.
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#7Before everyone shouts that the correlation may be spurious, I would like to say that some drugs (e.g. Parkinson's disease drugs), can have significant psychological side-effects, like increasing impulsivity and reducing risk aversion for those who experience them. People leave their spouses, buy expensive cars, get tattoos, and yes, leave their jobs to pursue entrepreneurship.
My point is that it's not far fetch to link infection to impulse, cause infection may change the chemical functioning of the brain.
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#8Is it trying to prove that a paper doesn't need to be any good to get published, or did I miss something? Genuinely interested: I skimmed through it and it seems like a hoax to me.
> Is it trying to prove that a paper doesn't need to be any good to get published, or did I miss something?
That was already proven a couple of years ago.
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#9Before everyone shouts that the correlation may be spurious, I would like to say that some drugs (e.g. Parkinson's disease drugs), can have significant psychological side-effects, like increasing impulsivity and reducing risk aversion for those who experience them. People leave their spouses, buy expensive cars, get tattoos, and yes, leave their jobs to pursue entrepreneurship. My point is that it's not far fetch to…
Neuroinflammation is directly behavior-modifying as I understand. Papers like this one are suuuuper interesting: “Aggression, Social Stress, and the Immune System in Humans and Animal Models” from 2017 by Takahashi, Flanigan, McEwen and Russo.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.0005... / DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffnbeh.2018.00056
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#10Before everyone shouts that the correlation may be spurious, I would like to say that some drugs (e.g. Parkinson's disease drugs), can have significant psychological side-effects, like increasing impulsivity and reducing risk aversion for those who experience them. People leave their spouses, buy expensive cars, get tattoos, and yes, leave their jobs to pursue entrepreneurship. My point is that it's not far fetch to…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186046 ("The Degradation Drug"; 75 comments)
("A medication prescribed for Parkinson’s and other diseases can transform a patient’s personality, unleashing heroic bouts of creativity or a torrent of shocking, even criminal")