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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 playing_colours »

skrebbel wrote: post #104
underdeserver wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Happy my story can help. It's been a long ride, coming up on three years. Because of the symptoms I was prompted to invest in self improvement as well. I am much more diligent about regularly exercising, eating better, minding my mental health* and minding my sleep; and there are still bad days where I can't concentrate at all. But things are getting better overall. * Every day I don't read or watch the news I'm happ…

The news trick really helps huh. We do it too and wow

Have you tried autoimmune protocol diet? Anecdotally, but it may help.

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

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Post by gn4d »

jl6 wrote: post #35

The title is misleading, at least on the IQ claim. The underlying study was observational and did not claim causation. Medical journals and their associated media summaries are awash with low-certainty studies that get de-nuanced and overhyped. These studies are relatively easy to do - not to denigrate the work put in by the original study authors (it’s not their fault the press sensationalize their work). But for st…

cope

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

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user568439 wrote: post #237
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…

My wife who is more than 2 years sick with Long/Post Covid, lost almost everything because of it, her body and her brain. She had almost perfect memory and spoke 5 languages fluently by the age of 30 while learning Chinese as a 6th. She had a promising career in the medicine field and was also quite a good painter and other crafts (not famous though). We were hiking regularly to very high mountains and doing a lot of…

>Of course always the “psychosomatic” smart ass appears, but there are enough proofs already to tell them to shut up.

Yup, and, right on cue, they're all over this thread already coping. Sorry to hear about your wife's situation.

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

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

reitanqild wrote: post #228
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IQ metrics are continually damned. There is still no real consensus that they are useful at all. But the social sciences is filled with a lot of soft metrics like IQ because studying complex human behavior with hard science is very hard, and probably impossible.

They are also constantly defended. Good, calibrated IQ tests measure something, and that something has a positive correlation with work efficiency in at least certain types of work. That said, there are many types of IQ tests and some of them are in my opinion rather weird, for example anything where your score depends on your knowledge of English language or English history as I hear has traditionally been the case…

The tests that work in measuring human behavior are fairly simply and very repeatable. Think Fitts's or Hick's Law, which involve hit testing and searching through an unsorted list. I can imagine pattern matching being fairly repeatable as well, but I'm not sure how it really relates to real problem solving. Then again, medical doctors are basically pattern matchers (and why they are fairly excited about AI assistance in...matching patterns).

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

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Post by gn4d »

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…

Because it matters in aggregate. Also, most of those individual categories you listed are, in fact, high IQ outliers, especially when it comes to Fields medalists and Nobel laureates. And you made it evident by your post that you are, in fact, low IQ.

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Post by gn4d »

torginus wrote: post #95
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…

This is like saying that since the tallest people are not the best basketball players, height in basketball doesn't matter.

Bingo.
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