Thursday, September 27, 2007

Chewing Gum Good for the Brain?

This study was done mostly as a joke, but actually resulted in an interesting find. The find being that with a group of students all taking the same exam, the students that chewed gum came out with better test scores than the students that did not chew gum.

The 591 students were all given a pack of gum before the exam. The students that were actually chewing gum during the exam came out with a mean score of 90 where the class mean being 78. Students the Chewed none of the pack before exam had a mean score of 60, those that chewed some of it had 81, and the students that chewed it all had a mean score of 86.

It's to be noted that this was an informal study. I personally think it coincidental, but maybe there will be more studies done. It states in the article that chewing gum actually increases the flow of blood to the brain, so it does actually kinda make sense that it would help with testing and such.

Link to article

13 comments:

Unknown said...

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Do you have a link to where you got the study from?

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