Elephant in room: Demographic change
Wasn’t aware Syrians had those sorts of stereotypes? Plenty of Turks were there in earlier cohorts.
Children’s IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds
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#22I thought IQ was more inherent? Why would missing a year of school make you dumber or smarter? My school when I was growing up tracked you based on an IQ test at age 4. How does that type of test vary as you age?
It's a little known fact among the MENSA populace that IQ varies across your lifetime, too. Friend of a friend did IQ testing 4 times. First time failed, second time succeeded, third time failed, fourth time succeeded...
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#23Not just children's...
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> This is the telegraph, a mouth piece
ad-hominem attack?
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Sorry what? You still believe - after everything we've seen - that the lockdowns were a good idea? Are. You. Insane?
A lot of this stuff was really politicized so yes, I believe it's possible to be anti-lockdown for bad reasons. This doesn't seem to be the case with this study though.
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#27I thought IQ was more inherent? Why would missing a year of school make you dumber or smarter? My school when I was growing up tracked you based on an IQ test at age 4. How does that type of test vary as you age?
It's a little known fact among the MENSA populace that IQ varies across your lifetime, too. Friend of a friend did IQ testing 4 times. First time failed, second time succeeded, third time failed, fourth time succeeded...
Because IQ tests don't really measure anything reliable?
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#28Even more??
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#29Is this because increase social media/internet use? Edit: Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was always 100?
> Is this because increase social media/internet use? This was the first thought that came to mind, and I also wonder if this goes further to increased media consumption and phone use/dependence across the board. Smartphone adoption and use was already on a hockey stick trajectory, but adding lockdown to the mix added to many people’s screen time massively. And for kids growing up in that setting, learning that knowl…
yup, according to my anecdata, every waking moment is now spent at the screen and it's impossible to change because there are no interests outside of that.
Re: Children’s IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds
#30I thought IQ was more inherent? Why would missing a year of school make you dumber or smarter? My school when I was growing up tracked you based on an IQ test at age 4. How does that type of test vary as you age?
It's a little known fact among the MENSA populace that IQ varies across your lifetime, too. Friend of a friend did IQ testing 4 times. First time failed, second time succeeded, third time failed, fourth time succeeded...
I feel like that's a stronger indicator in test inconsistency rather than anything about the mysterious quality that they are attempting to measure.
Similarly I have always felt that it's strange that SATs get changed periodically but then compared en masse across generations routinely, makes little sense to me.