Did you suspect that boxers or judoists are silly? No matter how insulting this is for the athletes themselves, scientists have proved that this is really so.

Mums who choose a sports section for a child will probably be especially interested in learning the results of this scientific research.

Representatives of contact sports do show worse results when testing their mental abilities than their less athletic peers.

Scientific confirmation of this was obtained after testing, which was conducted among students of Dartmouth College.

When the researchers found out who exactly showed the lowest test results for the intellect, it turned out that these are mostly young people who are engaged in contact sports.

Subjects in the number of 250 people were tested, indicating also the kind of sport that they are engaged in.

It turned out that among football players, hockey players and representatives of other team sports 4 percent "not too intellectually developed", whereas among the tested representatives of contact sports - 22.

Scientists did not even try to explain this, referring to the fact that they did not even try to study the causes of this phenomenon.

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