New study boldly claims that ONTD is full of dummies
Celebrity-obsessed people are less intelligent, new study boldly claims https://t.co/pdgknGbp2T pic.twitter.com/U8vnC8h89m
- New York Post (@nypost) January 5, 2022
a study published late last year states that "there is a direct association between celebrity worship and poorer performance on cognitive tests" measuring both literacy and numeracy.
From the NY Post article:
"The study asked 1,763 Hungarian adults to undertake a 30-word vocabulary test and a digit symbol substitution test, before completing a “Celebrity Attitude Scale” questionnaire to determine their levels of interest in famous people.
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However, the researchers were unable to determine whether celebrity obsessives perform poorly on cognitive tests because they used their brainpower thinking about A-listers, or whether they were fixated on Hollywood gossip because they were already less intelligent to begin with."
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