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Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

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Re: Children born in the pandemic have significantly reduced cognitive performance [pdf]

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Post by lazyasciiart »

Zababa wrote: post #261
smt88 wrote: post #107

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Lots of people who aren't old or otherwise sick were killed by Covid. Regardless, having overflowing hospitals is bad for children and every other age group.

I don't think that "lots" is true, at least in proportion. You can see that there are very big differences of death by covid depending on the age of the patients: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi... . Maybe we don't have the same definition of "children" and "old". My point is that people under 30 years paid a great price to protect mostly the health of people over 60 years old. I'll add a…

The average doctor in France is over 50 years old too. And all those ages use the same hospital beds.

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Post by asveikau »

mindslight wrote: post #271
nitrogen wrote: post #131

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their goal is simply to not be told what to do The urge to resist force is a vital element of US culture as a check on runaway governments. You see it in many movements, on both sides for or against. Women don't want to be forced to carry a baby. LGBT community doesn't want to be forced to hide. Christians don't want to be forced to stop praying in school. Non-Christians don't want to be forced to listen to prayers i…

The vast majority of people refusing to get vaccinated are doing so because a centralized top-down political machine told them to be against vaccination. This is about as un-libertarian as one can get. As a libertarian that is actually concerned with freedom, the main thing the Trumpertantrum has accomplished is discrediting the concept. Back when it was a small subset of antivax nutters, causing at most an occasiona…

Even your "good libertarian's" version of the small localized outbreak affects people that didn't make that choice.

My personal view (please don't be offended, libertarians -- it's my right to believe this!) is that individuality itself is a bit of a fiction, and this makes libertarianism essentially based on falsehood and break down. We're interconnected.

The best argument for individuality in politics and government, in my view, is that it gives "the average person" a fair shot, giving us good outcomes at the societal level even if many individuals do not get what they want.

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Post by rock_hard »

Ma8ee wrote: post #226
rock_hard wrote: post #164

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Some people have excessive behaviors…got nothing to do with TV, Games, Sugar, etc They just need help to learn to manage those excessive behaviors

Some behaviours are more immediately rewarding than other. It’s rare to find anyone eating too much broccoli or having problems stop rehearsing German irregular verbs.

Absolutely, even more important to learn how to manage those early in life and adopt healthy behaviors

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Post by Grustaf »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #293
Grustaf wrote: post #287

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How do you ride a dirt bike in a half pipe? I think you're mixing up terminology here. And he must be very big for his age if he can ride a full-size dirt bike. > My job as a parent is not to manipulate him into the life I think he should live That happens to be exactly what your job is. Children don't know what's best for them, that's why they have parents.

You're misreading the words. It said "full size dirt park half pipe"

So what does he take to the "dirt park half pipe", and what is that? I've never seen a half pipe in a dirt park, do you ride it like a snowboard half pipe or a skate ramp?

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Post by yesenadam »

baxtr wrote: post #148
sirspacey wrote: post #129

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Edit: was intended as response to a reply to this. Appreciate the caution. We took a different approach. Unlimited screen time. Our daughter’s rate of learning is incredible. She willingly explores IRL play. No battles when we ask her to put down her iPad. Roblox and Minecraft are our shared playtime. I was homeschooled with no TV. My experience of her development is similar to what I experienced with my siblings. A…

I have a friend who was always the best in his class at Uni and has become a lead doctor in a major hospital. He once told me that he used to watch roughly 2-3 hrs of television on any day when he was a kid because his parents needed to work all the time. He turned out just fine. I remember back in the day television was the bad guy in town. I wonder if iPads aren’t much better since they foster interaction and not j…

> he used to watch roughly 2-3 hrs of television on any day

Surprising comment, that this is seen is unusual! I grew up in the 70s-80s (in Australia). 2-3 hours would've been pretty much universal, I think, and more likely to be >3 than I've been trying to make up for that, by watching just good/great stuff from around the world, no ads, during the last 10 years: see http://www.adamponting.com/movies/

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Post by Nasrudith »

kurthr wrote: post #90
gizmo385 wrote: post #58

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As evidenced by?

The rise and fall of rationality based words in English language (rose until 1980s and has plummeted since): https://www.pnas.org/content/118/51/e2107848118

That seems methodologically quite questionable for the conclusions drawn. Like many blind semantic analysis attempts which consider language of a crash report for bug testing toxic due to the instances of "does not work", and "kill" and "fail". Meanwhile "I hope you enjoy eating your family then." is positive.

Falsely presenting subjective viewpoints as objective would appear more rational. It isn't the trappings which make it rational or even distance from emotions. One can rationally make "non-optimal" decisions from subjective personal costs.

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Post by thesz »

Mother's exercise during pregnancy enhance baby's brain development: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029433-000-exercise...

I've checked out my year averages for 2019, 2020 and 2021, they were 5, 3.4 and 5.2 km per day. 2020 average is 2/3 of my usual per day walk distance. I try to average 5 km/day in an effort to lessen cognitive decline, because walking rises brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) level in the blood. BDNF can travel umblical cord and can enhance baby's brain development.

So, mothers walking less due to lockdowns is the simplest explanation for that cognitive impairment phenomena I could think of.

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Post by gmadsen »

hannob wrote: post #239
q1w2 wrote: post #221

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One of the most eye-opening studies I saw was that social science papers with the most citations, had the highest likelihood of not being reproducible. Meaning that Social Sciences are actually pushing out misinformation more than not.

This isn't an issue of social science. This is an issue that has been found in a diverse number of fields, basically everywhere where someone has looked: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.0003...

its a little disingenuous to make it seem like all fields are equal. when that is clearly not the case

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Post by zzzeek »

dude187 wrote: post #278
zzzeek wrote: post #88

you know what really impacts early cognitive performance? having one's parents die from covid. So while social distancing, closings, and masks completely suck, they have been necessary in order to attempt to maintain public health, and without them, there would have been vastly more deaths.

None of that works. Covid is here to stay. You're just saying that these kids should hide their face and stay away from their friends for their whole life

didnt actually say anything like that, and I also chose my words pretty carefully. might want to read more closely before responding.
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