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Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest

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Re: Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest

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Post by mort96 »

eru wrote: post #9

> There are studies that have been done comparing people who had COVID-19, versus people who didn't, and then gave them cognitive testing to measure their ability to cognitively process information and test their IQ. And there's very clear differences in the IQ of people who had been infected with COVID-19 versus people who did not. Even mild COVID can give people about a three-point loss of IQ. That sounds like an o…

I guess the title wouldn't have been as interesting if it was "Stupid people more likely to get covid"

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Post by skrebbel »

henrikschroder wrote: post #8

If this is true, you should expect results to be the same across countries, and the measurable drops in IQ should correlate to infection rates. Five bucks says you won't find that.

I’m curious why you don’t think you’d find that. I very much believe you would.

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Post by logicchains »

max_ wrote: post #16

Is there any real world test where higher IQ people do better than anyone else deterministically? I am not talking about correlations. I am talking about people with higher IQ can solve X problem that people with lower IQs can't. Not the ability to spot back & white patterns on a screen. The riches people are not the highest IQ people The Noble Prize Winners are not the highest IQ people The best sports players are n…

>The riches people are not the highest IQ people The Noble Prize Winners are not the highest IQ people The best sports players are not the highest IQ people The best mathematicians are not the highest IQ people The best musicians are not the highest IQ people.

These may not be the highest IQ people, but very few are low IQ (below 90).

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Post by dijit »

dakiol wrote: post #19
max_ wrote: post #16

Is there any real world test where higher IQ people do better than anyone else deterministically? I am not talking about correlations. I am talking about people with higher IQ can solve X problem that people with lower IQs can't. Not the ability to spot back & white patterns on a screen. The riches people are not the highest IQ people The Noble Prize Winners are not the highest IQ people The best sports players are n…

Here in western europe IQ tests are unheard of. I never met anyone (people at work, family members, close friends, acquaintances, etc.) who has taken such a test.

You have to take an IQ test as part of an ADHD diagnosis.

I genuinely don't know why, but you do have to.

Re: Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest

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Post by max_ »

leovingi wrote: post #17
max_ wrote: post #16

Is there any real world test where higher IQ people do better than anyone else deterministically? I am not talking about correlations. I am talking about people with higher IQ can solve X problem that people with lower IQs can't. Not the ability to spot back & white patterns on a screen. The riches people are not the highest IQ people The Noble Prize Winners are not the highest IQ people The best sports players are n…

Maintaining a high level of civilization

So when civilizations collapse like a Ancient Egyptian, Rome, Ancient China & Ancient Greece.

What it the IQ that also dropped to cause the civilization collapse?

Re: Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest

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Post by danielheath »

henrikschroder wrote: post #8

If this is true, you should expect results to be the same across countries, and the measurable drops in IQ should correlate to infection rates. Five bucks says you won't find that.

It's almost impossible to compare IQ tests across countries, because cognition test results are really only valid for people from the cultural context the test was written for.

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Post by TheFreim »

skrebbel wrote: post #18

My wife has postcovid and this is a profound effect. Yesterday she tried to add up a series of numbers by heart, and she simply couldn’t. For context, she’s pretty mathy and used to mock me for taking out a calculator or a spreadsheet for stuff like that. She also forgets everything, which is another thing she used to be great at. It’s pretty confronting, especially now that the idea that maybe this isn’t temporary i…

Could it be that she's simply out of practice?

Re: Covid infections are causing IQ drops and years of brain aging, studies suggest

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Post by pjerem »

danielheath wrote: post #27
henrikschroder wrote: post #8

If this is true, you should expect results to be the same across countries, and the measurable drops in IQ should correlate to infection rates. Five bucks says you won't find that.

It's almost impossible to compare IQ tests across countries, because cognition test results are really only valid for people from the cultural context the test was written for.

I suppose you can’t compare the absolute results but you can see if there is a similar trend.
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