Stat of the Week Winner

Congratulations to Andrew Mardon for being this week’s Stat of the Week winner for his nomination of:

“The higher a country’s chocolate consumption, the more Nobel laureates it spawns per capita, according to findings released in the New England Journal of Medicine.”

While the article mentions both correlation and causation, it doesn’t clearly explain the difference between the two and makes the distinction murkier by saying science is fallible and including a gem quote such as this:

“[The US] would have to up its cocoa intake by a whopping 125 million kg a year to produce one more laureate, said Franz Messerli, who did the analysis.”