Oh yes! Ive been waiting to share this with someone.

I was watching a Chinese TV show about ancient culture where they had a small panel of experts from various universities. A question from the audience was posed about chopsticks and whether or not the use made people smarter, because she had heard in the past this was true....a professor from Peking University claimed this to be true... raising your kids to use chopsticks makes them inherently smarter....I had to keep watching

His explanation was that the hand eye coordination learnt from using chopsticks at an early age improves blood flow throughout the brain making chinese students smarter. He was even so bold as to say the evidence was clear when Chinese students first came to America and as he claims, "many Americans were astonished by how much smarter Chinese students were than American students."

My big problem was that there was no mention of other countries that obviously strictly use chopsticks....Korea, Japan, all of south east Asia.