“If it was really the case that hunger affected our brains this much, “our society would fall into minor chaos every day at 11:45”.”
The 2011 hungry judges study watched eight Israeli judges and found parole approvals fell from 65 percent to near zero before meals. Kahneman put it in a bestseller and it collected more than 1,700 citations. A new study of thousands of judges in India and Pakistan during Ramadan finds the opposite effect, and a much smaller one. Eight judges and a great story beat decades of data for 12 years.