[HN Gopher] Children's IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds
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Children's IQ dropped during lockdown, study finds
Author : petodo
Score : 18 points
Date : 2023-03-09 20:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.telegraph.co.uk)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.telegraph.co.uk)
| petodo wrote:
| Link to study
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| https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
| mrlonglong wrote:
| This is the telegraph, a mouth piece for Tory anti-lockdown
| "reporters", such as Isabel Oakeshott and Julia Hartley-Brewer. I
| wouldn't take anything they print at face value.
| ETH_start wrote:
| 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:
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| https://rumble.com/vnwyhz-the-mountain-of-data-showing-how-a...
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13571516.2021.19...
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| https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature...
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| Lockdowns have devasted education:
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| https://www.economist.com/international/2022/07/07/covid-lea...
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| The cost to lifetime earnings is estimated to be $17 trillion:
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| https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/12/06/l...
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| Which will massively exacerbate poverty and all of its
| associated illnesses.
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| The education losses have been worst for the poor:
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| https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/remote-learni...
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| Social distancing and other COVID control measures, which
| became mandatory with lockdowns, have been associated with a
| surge in childhood obesity:
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| https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...
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| 97 million more people are estimated to be poverty due to the
| social reaction to COVID, the most drastic and disruptive of
| which were lockdowns:
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| https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impac...
| GenerocUsername wrote:
| Elephant in room: Demographic change
| Imnimo wrote:
| How should I interpret Figure 8?
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| https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure?id=10.1371/...
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| 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?
| meghan_rain wrote:
| Is this because increase social media/internet use?
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| Edit: Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was
| always 100?
| lockhouse wrote:
| I think it has more to do with the very low quality of remote
| instruction.
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| 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.
| GenerocUsername wrote:
| It's a 10 year gap between measure. There could be many
| factors beyond lockdown
| hackerlight wrote:
| > Also, how can the average IQ be 112? I thought it was always
| 100?
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| Sample mean (112) != population mean (unknowable) != an
| estimate of the population mean (100)
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