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The point is (assuming neither study contains an artefact): there is a trade off.
High altitude climbing is also known to cause brain changes detectable on MRI. See e.g. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ham.2011.1073
I only hire devs that were born within 200m of sea level. Best devs are those born below sea level.
Does that mean if someone was raised in a mine are they better at bare-metal development?
As any educator will tell you, a mine is a terrible thing to waste.
I only hire devs that were born within 200m of sea level. Best devs are those born below sea level.
High altitude climbing is also known to cause brain changes detectable on MRI. See e.g. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ham.2011.1073
Didn't one study use FMRI to detect neurological changes in response to various types of music (or something like that) in dead fish?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_iodine_deficiency_s...
Iodine is vitally important for child development, especially brain development. In mountainous regions, there can be less iodine in the soil (and you are away from the ocean where fish and other seafood are a ready source of iodine). IIRC, it used to be a big issue in the Alpine regions of Europe.
This is one of the reasons that iodine is put into salt as a supplement.
> higher altitudes within the US have fewer environmental contaminants Living in Denver, I routinely see headlines (and see with my own eyes) about how terrible the air quality is here, at certain times of the year at least. Wonder if that data controls for whether someone is in a high-altitude city or at the summit of a 14,000+ ft mountain.
I remember flying into Denver in the winter and seeing the inversion of just awful brown haze. I cried for my lungs on that trip.
The sooner we can transition to EVs, the better.
I found it more interesting that apparently it's possible to get paid by the hour to do research on subjects like this.