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> wired on sugar That's not a thing. http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/sugar-and-candy-do-not-make-kids-hyper/ http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wor

• brador 8y ago
  Have kids and give them sugar. It absolutely is a verifiable thing. You get ~2-3 hours of hyperactivity/tunnelvision followed by the crying crash to nap combo. Every parent knows this. It's real and repeatable.
  • projektir 8y ago
    Hmm, this doesn't really verify it because the average person's kids might have been trained by now to react in a certain way after eating sugar. If you expect yourself to react a certain way after eating a food, you just might. Similar to how a lot of kids are afraid of lightning because you are.
  • jaredklewis 8y ago
    Confirmation bias, meet placebo control group. From the article: > In my favorite of these studies, children were divided into two groups. All of them were given a sugar-free beverage to drink. But half the parents were told that their child had just had a drink with sugar. Then, all of the parents were told to grade their children’s behavior. Not surprisingly, the parents of children who thought their children had drunk a ton of sugar rated their children as significantly more hyperactive. This myth is entirely in parents’ heads. We see it because we believe it.
  • JshWright 8y ago
    I do have kids... I also know the differences between anecdotes and evidence.
• kareemm 8y ago
  Maybe it’s the environment in which I give my kids sugar that causes them to be wired. But regardless, the crash is horrible to behold.
  • oxide 8y ago
    Confirmation bias at its finest.