{"id":10503,"date":"2014-02-06T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10503"},"modified":"2014-02-06T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T12:37:38","slug":"alcohol-and-academic-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/alcohol-and-academic-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol And Academic Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020614_1235_AlcoholAndA1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Economist took a look at some numbers related to alcohol and college:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The more that colleges in Cambridge spend on wine, the better their academic results tend to be.<\/li>\n<li>This is probably because richer colleges are able to spend more on alcohol\u2026and also programs that actually boost academic performance.<\/li>\n<li>Older colleges also attract more upper class students &#8211; the types who would enjoy wine and have the cash to give themselves an academic boost through extra tuitions and coaching.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the wine probably isn&#8217;t drunk by students anyway. It&#8217;s spent on functions for alumni to help raise money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2014\/02\/correlation-and-causation-0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2014\/02\/correlation-and-causation-0\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economist took a look at some numbers related to alcohol and college: The more that colleges in Cambridge spend on wine, the better their academic results tend to be. This is probably because richer colleges are able to spend more on alcohol\u2026and also programs that actually boost academic performance. Older colleges also attract more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/020614_1235_AlcoholAndA1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10506,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions\/10506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}