Study Suggests Jocks Really Are Dumber: Believable or Baloney?
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2012/05/21 18:00:00
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You've heard all the stereotypes ... the dumb jocks, the ditzy cheerleaders, the band nerds. Often, these cliches are more insulting than anything else. But new research suggests there might be some truth to at least one of them. Jocks in contact sports perform worse on tests than non-jocks, according to a Dartmouth College study.
But before you get all riled up, consider this: The study mainly detected inferior test-taking performance among athletes who participate in contact sports (e.g. football and hockey.) So have no fear, tennis players!
Twenty-two percent of students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected, as opposed to only 4 percent of non-contact sport athletes (those who participate in track, crew and Nordic skiing), LiveScience reports. And it may have something to do with those blows to the head.
Twenty-two percent of students who participated in contact sports scored significantly lower in memory and learning skills than expected, as opposed to only 4 percent of non-contact sport athletes (those who participate in track, crew and Nordic skiing), LiveScience reports. And it may have something to do with those blows to the head.
"These results were found shortly after the season and we do not know how long the effect [of the head impacts] lasts," study researcher Thomas McAllister said in a statement. "While it may be bad for the 22 percent, the good news is that overall there were few differences in the test results between the athletes in contact sports and the athletes in non-contact sports." Do you think this study explains the whole "dumb jock" thing once and for all?
Bald-faced lies
Damn lies
and statistics
I was an athlete in high school (cheerleading,volleyball, field hockey) and I used to be a pretty serious weight lifter...you spend so much time SOOO focused on diet, schedules (leg day,back day, so many grams of carb or protein) its hard to focus on other issues
In my current school...there's a lot more balance I suppose.
For me, smart is someone who knows when to talk and when to shut up.
I'm just jealous of your carefree nature, your studies were most likely below average, as seen by your posts.
If it will make you feel better, they guys just allowed to stay on my college's chess team because I was the only girl, I was/am terrible at chess.
That was several years of nerdy guys being pretty condecending to me, even if they were not so smart in other areas, necessarily and even if I was the only female that really talked to them or liked them. lol
Cling to stats and your lack of humour. I mean, "Whatever rattles your cage."
Idiot. lol
"I was always a jock in school as well as being in advanced classes and that was in schools for gifted kids, so suck on that, jealous, "Believables!" Ha!"
it was meant as a congratulations not as sarcasm
lol
However in contact sports you get hit in the head, repeatedly. It should be no surprise that those people do not perform as well on tests.