Children’s IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds
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Children’s IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds
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#3Is this because increase social media/internet use?
Edit: Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was always 100?
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#4How should I interpret Figure 8?
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/...
If the difference between the 2012 and 2020 cohorts is roughly the same as between the 2012 and 2002 cohorts, why should I suspect this isn't just a failure to pick comparable cohorts across the decades?
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#5Is this because increase social media/internet use? Edit: Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was always 100?
> Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was always 100?
Sample mean (112) != population mean (unknowable) != an estimate of the population mean (100)
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#7Is this because increase social media/internet use? Edit: Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was always 100?
I think it has more to do with the very low quality of remote instruction.
Zoom and friends are generally speaking a terrible way to teach children. The medium is more or less limited to auditory and visual learning. With some preparation and parental involvement you can do some hands on learning, but it is much more limited than in a classroom.
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#8Elephant in room: Demographic change
Re: Children’s IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds
#9Is this because increase social media/internet use? Edit: Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was always 100?
I think it has more to do with the very low quality of remote instruction. Zoom and friends are generally speaking a terrible way to teach children. The medium is more or less limited to auditory and visual learning. With some preparation and parental involvement you can do some hands on learning, but it is much more limited than in a classroom.
It's a 10 year gap between measure. There could be many factors beyond lockdown
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So the main opposition to Labour should be dismissed off hand?
The conflation of 'the political left's perception of reality' with 'the truth' is outrageous, and nothing more than an attempt to delegitimize views that conflict with the political left's agenda, which corresponds with polls showing in the US, registered Democrats are increasingly gravitating toward authoritarianism:
https://rumble.com/vnwyhz-the-mountain-of-data-showing-how-a...
The evidence for harm from lockdowns is at this point overwhelming, but this issue has become so politicized that the worst policy decision perhaps in history is being swept under the rug.
Absent a feasible zero-COVID strategy, which for most countries was never in the books due to their geographical situation, lockdowns have been found to have virtually no impact on reducing the spread of COVID.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13571516.2021.19...
https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...
Lockdowns have devastated education:
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-milli...
https://www.economist.com/international/2022/07/07/covid-lea...
The cost to lifetime earnings is estimated to be $17 trillion:
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/12/06/l...
Which will massively exacerbate poverty and all of its associated illnesses.
The education losses have been worst for the poor:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/remote-learni...
Social distancing and other COVID control measures, which became mandatory with lockdowns, have been associated with a surge in childhood obesity:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...
97 million more people are estimated to be in poverty due to the social reaction to COVID, the most drastic and disruptive of which were lockdowns:
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impac...