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Welcome to Who Weatly, the podcast where you'll learn everything you need to know about

celebrities you don't, I'm Bobby Finger. I'm Lindsay Weber.

And here's a tweet from the New York Post, celebrity obsessed people are less intelligent

than comma, new study boldly claims. I don't need the post to tell me that, I know that.

You found the study, they linked to the study from BMC psychology.

What's funny is like I proved my true stupidity by reading the page six article,

then going to the study that they linked, which was by the way, inconclusive,

and then like vaguely scanning it to learn exactly how it was inconclusive

and has been inconclusive two times before when other people have tried similar studies.

Who's the idiot now? Also, this study was done with 1763 Hungarian adults,

and it's just so specific. And the New York Post is like, we gotta get on this.

They definitely got an email and we're like, okay, we'll publish this. We can make a good headline

out of this. The conclusion, despite the limitations, the study indicated a week negative association

between celebrity worship and cognitive performance, even after controlling for some relevant

demographic socioeconomic and psychological factors. No, the best conclusion was, however,

the researchers were unable to determine whether celebrity obsessives

performed poorly in cognitive tests because they used their brain power thinking about a list or

whether they were fixated on Hollywood gossip because they were already less intelligent to begin with.

So it's really like, am I stupid because I care about celebrities or do I care about

celebrities because I'm stupid? It's the ultimate chicken in the egg. Seriously.

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