Daily Candy in Childhood Linked to Violence in Adulthood

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Hotels Muenster of 3:39AM April 07, 2010

I thought that every problem was caused by smoking/ second hand smoke...Darn! Hmmm - what can we tax next?

gouzgounis of MA 1:14AM October 09, 2009

If there s also a correelation between reported eating of say greenbeans, mushy peas, haggis, kippers or curry to be found. Maybe you can force a correlation to booger eating, or being forced to eat peanut butter and banana sandwiches with violent crime. Maybe you can ask questions like "were you forbidden to have candy" at age 10 and create a correlation between excessive parental control and violent crime. Too bad this didnt show that eating tofu showed such a correlation, or eating arugula maybe, but then I bet that neither of those was a choice offered in the questionaire.

onlyme of OH 10:48PM October 08, 2009

It is my strong belief that the researchers were exposed to severe levels of over-funding and chronic boredom.
PS: The candy vending machine adjacent to their lab is in dire need of a refill! Geeeeeeezz!
;)

Daemon_ZOGG of 2:35PM October 08, 2009

Martin said: "The measured 69% could easily be 42% after taking statistical changes into consideration."
Can you actually back that up with the statistics, or is that a guess? Because a quick simulation shows that if the real percentage is 42%, like the rest of the population, then the odds of getting 69% of those 35 criminals in the candy-eating category is 0.04%. I'll bet you that the scientists did those statistics. Did you, before you made you claims?
I'm not saying that this proves the research is correct, but it is a real result worth publishing and investigating further.

Darren of MN 9:50AM October 08, 2009

Isn't it very possible the a persons diet when they're 10 is likely to be an indicator of their parents conscientiousness. If you accept that to be true then all this study really shows is that people with conscientious parents are less likely to be violent criminals. And I think most people would regard that as a no brainer....

Ben Staniford 7:34AM October 08, 2009

To make a scientific statement based on the tiny sample size of 35 is rediculous! The measured 69% could easily be 42% after taking statistical changes into consideration. Which means that there is no (!) correltaion between eating candies or not at the age of 10 and being caught of a crime at the age of 34. The research result is simply a non-statement. Why don't scientists learn properly statistics?

Martin Fluch 5:57AM October 08, 2009