# Doing first rate science is hard.....and sweet and tasty!!

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**Created:** [November 30, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-first-rate-science-is-hard-and-sweet-and-tasty/675141 "2013-11-30T16:34:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-first-rate-science-is-hard-and-sweet-and-tasty/675141/1 "2013-11-30T16:34:29Z")

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Want to win a Nobel Prize? Eat more chocolate (or, at least, get your compatriots to). [Here is the hard (unless it gets too warm) data.](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/files/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2012-11-20-at-4.46.58-PM1.png)

([And here is the explanation, sort of.](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2012/11/20/chocolate-consumption-and-nobel-prizes-a-bizarre-juxtaposition-if-there-ever-was-one/))

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2013, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doing-first-rate-science-is-hard-and-sweet-and-tasty/675141/2 "2013-11-30T17:01:38Z")

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Yeah, I came to much the same conclusion as the SciAm writer. Though there are also some other issues not apparent from the graph that he mentions in the article.