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The tests showed that not only did Red Bull not give them wings – the addition of the energy drink to alcohol made no noticeable difference to fitness. Two years later the same researchers looked into the psychological effects of mixing alcohol with an energy drink. Compared to drinking just vodka, volunteers felt much fitter and sharper after drinking vodka and Red Bull. But tests showed that drinkers of just vodka and drinkers of vodka-Red 43 Dunk Your Biscuit Horizonta}y Bull scored equally badly on reaction speed and coordination tests.
A team of researchers from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil would beg to differ. A group of healthy men was given a new drink every week. Sometimes it contained alcohol, sometimes alcohol and Red Bull. An hour after consuming the drink they got on bicycles and pedalled till they had reached a particular heart rate. At various points the researchers measured oxygen intake, blood pressure and glucose levels in the blood. The tests showed that not only did Red Bull not give them wings – the addition of the energy drink to alcohol made no noticeable difference to fitness.
1,198 pounds. The group as a whole seemed extraordinarily clever. 49 Dunk Your Biscuit Horizonta}y Is that coincidence? Not in the slightest. This phenomenon has been shown often since Galton’s publication in the scientific magazine Nature. The cause? Guesses that are too high are compensated for by guesses that are too low. So the extremes cancel each other out. The conclusion? If you need to guess the number of beans in a jar, you would do well to take a lot of friends with you and to average their guesses.