Study Suggests Jocks Really Are Dumber: Believable or Baloney?

It's probably because most of these jocks are b....! And most cheerleaders are blond.

LOL

Thanks for the laugh. I'm a bit surprised that people weren't jumping all over me for my inferences about the jocks and the cheerleaders. I was hoping that they would. Do you think that I was too subtle?

yes.

I think that's stupid geeks are the stupidest hypocrite

The geeks are the ones who's stupid

Wow this study is very ironic.
This jock who sits behinds me in Chemistry class gets on my nerves and he barely gets good grades. H

They are

I definately believe it.

Not the case when I was in school. You had to have a “B” average to be on the team.

Well there MAY be a correlation, simply because smart people typically spend more time in the library rather than in the gym, however that isn't how it has to be.

machoman and brains rarely go hand in hand

More BS

When i was in high school, most jocks just skated by with their grades. All teachers cared about was making sure that student had high enough grades to play. They never punished said student , nothing was expected of them so they didn't even try and do their homework. They have the ability to be smart, they just choose not to. It doesn't help when no one cares how you do academically.

Contact sports only - that's what causes the loss.

My brother was in varsity football in high school, and one of the best pitchers and catchers of the high school baseball team which contributed to them being one of the best teams in the state, he's played baseball since he was 4. he's also participated in various other sports as well. He won homecoming king and prom king. Now i'll add that he was also valedictorian at our high school with a gpa of 4.61, he got one of the highest SAT scores in the school, got 3 scholarships, he built his own computer, has been in orchestra playing the cello since middle school, and can play other instruments. My brother is not dumb at ALL lol.

Those who are not academically gifted are more likely to pursue athletics instead, and those who are athletically talented may give less attention to their academic work. It makes sense.

Of course it makes sense. Not only do the physical tests show it, but if someone puts everyone ounce of their energy into sports, instead of education, they are going to be less smart than those who have school at a higher priority (and do better). Though it may not be the case for everybody, it is certainly believable.

Perhaps not as dumb as the character they are referencing, but yes, they seem to be suffering in the education department.

nerds are real go getters FACEBOOK and TWITTER not for ESPN

With the numbers of hit's on their head, i'm not very surprised...

It's weird because I always assumed that jocks had to be smart to some degree, since they need to maintain a certain GPA in order to participate in sports. Then again, it does make sense. Their poor, poor craniums!

Well, at my school, if you are failing 2 or more classes, you cannot participate in sports activities... So it really isn't hard to maintain a C average in order to play their desired sport. And trust me, if they were smart at my school, they wouldn't be a C student :P

That is true. In my day, I've encountered a few jocks who were pretty dense and yet they're still allowed to play. Then again, I've met some pretty intelligent ones as well. All in all, it depends.

Agreed, this study is an average after all. There's definitely room for some idiots and masterminds to fall into play :P

I know plenty of high school athletes and most of them were/are the smartest in school...

MANY JOCKS HAVE LIMITED BRAIN BANKS FOCUSED TOTALLY ON THEIR "SPORT ABILITIES." ....BUT I'VE ALSO KNOWN SOME EXCEPTIONALLY EDUCATED, WELL SPOKEN, POLITICALLY SAVVY, PLEASANT JOCKS AS WELL.

P.S., I ALSO HAVE DISCOVERED THERE ARE A GREAT NUMBER OF DUMB NON-JOCKS OUT THERE. PERHAPS THERE SHOULD BE A STUDY TO DETERMINE WHAT THEIR PERCENTAGE IS IN THE WORLD'S TOTAL POPULATION?

I can buy that

LMAO. thats just sad

Yeah ,not all jocks are dumb,and not all "nerds" are "wimps",but that is a funny picture! (she just needed an arrow on the back pointing UP!)

ikr ur hilarious

Trying to curb my need to make a snarky joke here...
Uh ^Sigh

Go ahead .................i deserve it!

If you read the details of the study, you'll see that the contact-sport student's performance was the same as the noncontact-sport students on the PRE-season tests....

"...the study did not find differences in test results between the two groups of athletes at the beginning of the season, suggesting that the cumulative head impacts that contact athletes had incurred over many previous seasons did not result in reduced thinking and memory skills in the overall group."

Anyone who has ever played ball knows that you get some slight headaches during camp, then the membranes between your brain and your skull (meninges) swell a tiny bit and stay that way over the entire season...keeping your brain from rattling around so much.

It doesn't surprise me that their scores would be lower after the season. It would have been more informative if they had continued to test the contact-sport jocks to see how long it took for their scores to get back to normal after the season ended.

But I also want to see the study controls.... At a college level for football in particular, there is an opportunity to attend college on scholarship with significantly less natural college worthy mental ability. Next question is do contact sports attract these types of people or does this happen because of the sport... All sorts of variables would be interesting to investigate. Anecdotally though it makes sense. PS - I'd love to see a comparison of hockey to football in head trauma.... My gut sense is that hockey might be more impactful. (no pun intended.)

contact sports are EXTREMELY hard on the body........many football players have early onset dementia from head injuries !!

Some people are dumber and some people like to play sports ;-)

Im not saying all but I am saying most that Ive known. When I was in college I saw first hand that they got extensions on their homework assignments, they weren't hammered for sleeping in class and grades were fixed for the higher players. Ive heard OJ Simpson couldn't even read when he graduated. They do what they have to do to keep those boys on the field. I wasn't a jock. I was in the theatre department and they cut us absolutely no slack in our academics. They kissed the football players a$$es tho... They'd crash out in class and then the teacher would pat em on the back after class and say "good luck at the game tonight son"... Now cheerleaders on the other hand. Its really a roll of the dice. Ive met some who went into cheerleader because of lack of gymnastics and were exceptionally smart. Ive also met a lot who were dumb as a fence post. Ive hung out with some pretty cool ones one who went on to work in the medical field. I think its all where the school budge rests... The higher the budget. The dumber the jock.

I believe this. Smarter people have other priorities than playing sports (usually). Few are real smart, but generally they are normal I.Q. to just plain old dumb jocks. Football jocks make good cops, security guards and work foreman on union jobs, .things like that. Ever hear of a real jock getting a Rhoades Scholarship.