Ah, the French!
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Well, I happen to find that link and found it surprising we were at the top and the french at the bottom of that list.
I am not into this french bashing thing.
Last week or so our country honored six secret agents from France who played a role in the Liberation of our country back in 45. They gave their lives for others to live.
Also, we shouldn't forget French resistance who hide many British and American pilots and gave them a free passage to England.
This is just my opinion whos parents were under a German regime for 5 years. We should be proud at everyone who helped us to free our country.
I am not into this french bashing thing.
Last week or so our country honored six secret agents from France who played a role in the Liberation of our country back in 45. They gave their lives for others to live.
Also, we shouldn't forget French resistance who hide many British and American pilots and gave them a free passage to England.
This is just my opinion whos parents were under a German regime for 5 years. We should be proud at everyone who helped us to free our country.
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Originally posted by serotta
F150Europe, That's a very interesting graph and chart. I wonder if anyone has taken those same children and done a graph of how many of them played soccer for more than 10 years while growing up. It would be interesting to see if there was a higher percentage of soccer players in the countries with the lower average IQ's. I know soccer is probably more popular in Europe that North America or Asia. I read somewhere that a test group of college student were tracked from middle school to college, divided by soccer players and non-soccer players. The soccer players started out the same as the non-soccer players, but after 10 years, their average IQ's were 10 points lower.
F150Europe, That's a very interesting graph and chart. I wonder if anyone has taken those same children and done a graph of how many of them played soccer for more than 10 years while growing up. It would be interesting to see if there was a higher percentage of soccer players in the countries with the lower average IQ's. I know soccer is probably more popular in Europe that North America or Asia. I read somewhere that a test group of college student were tracked from middle school to college, divided by soccer players and non-soccer players. The soccer players started out the same as the non-soccer players, but after 10 years, their average IQ's were 10 points lower.
Yes, soccer is a big thing in Europe, especially Champions League sponsored by ..... Ford
(Keep buying those Trucks)A research showed that playing the ball by the head, headers could cause braindamage which could result to a lower IQ off course. At least that is what I heard some time ago.
I am not saying it is dangerous but young kids may have more chances on braindamage. That is all I can say about it.
Or all what the young kids were interested in was playing football and learned nothing at school but I doubt that.
This is cool and funny.
Yesterday one of the games was attented by a Pakistani taxicab driver from NY. He is a fan of FC Groningen for more than 20 years and this was the first time he visited a game.
