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2021-08-13 Science & Technology

Children born during pandemic have lower IQs, US study finds

[Guardian] Children born during the coronavirus pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared with children born before, a US study suggests.

The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But with Covid-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they tried to balance work and childcare.

With limited stimulation at home and less interaction with the world outside, pandemic-era children appear to have scored shockingly low on tests designed to assess cognitive development, said lead study author Sean Deoni at Brown University.

In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardised tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78, according to the analysis, which is yet to be peer-reviewed.

Posted by Matt 2021-08-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 The virus destroys the intelligence of adults, why should it not do the same for children.

Posted by Glenmore 2021-08-13 01:48|| 2021-08-13 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 So can anyone tell me, is this with or without The Jab ? 22 points is a very STEEP drop... @ a 70 IQ people can barely tie their shoes.

Posted by Dino Chomock8984 2021-08-13 02:01|| 2021-08-13 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Australian aborigines have IQ of 62. Don't know if they wear shoes.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-08-13 02:28|| 2021-08-13 02:28|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Some reports indicate the Aboriginals and their culture have been around for 40-60 thousand years. Perhaps lower test scores are the key.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-08-13 02:36|| 2021-08-13 02:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The oldest kids in this study are 18 months old. Take this study with a grain of salt the size of the moon.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-08-13 05:13|| 2021-08-13 05:13|| Front Page Top

#6

Give this some deeper thought.

Quoting a simple search
"Children under the age of 2 cannot be evaluated with IQ testing. To be tested, children must be verbal and able to talk. Even if a baby is verbally advanced, IQ tests are not designed for children this young.(May 31,2021)"

The oldest kids born since the Pandemic started
would only be about 1 year, 7 months.

So how do you administer a valid IQ test?

Posted by NN2N1 2021-08-13 06:18|| 2021-08-13 06:18|| Front Page Top

#7 They can do neonatal testing for responsiveness (looking for disabilities) not IQ testing. The article is click bait.

Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2021-08-13 06:50|| 2021-08-13 06:50|| Front Page Top

#8 #7; Good catch, click bait.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-13 07:02|| 2021-08-13 07:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Pandemic babies have higher IQs than the author of this article.

Posted by Airandee 2021-08-13 07:07|| 2021-08-13 07:07|| Front Page Top

#10 The same experts who were diagnosing almost every kid in the 90s with ADHD just for being playful and understandably inattentive to half baked 'pedagogical' demands.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2021-08-13 07:22|| 2021-08-13 07:22|| Front Page Top

#11 #10, yes, that was monstrous ADHD contrived money maker. I'd bet with pandemic fewer referrals from schools.

Posted by Dale 2021-08-13 07:44|| 2021-08-13 07:44|| Front Page Top

#12 The Guardian. LOL.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2021-08-13 08:48|| 2021-08-13 08:48|| Front Page Top

#13 The real agenda of this article: More government intervention.

The first few years of a child’s life are critical to their cognitive development. But with Covid-19 triggering the closure of businesses, nurseries, schools and playgrounds, life for infants changed considerably, with parents stressed and stretched as they tried to balance work and childcare.

Posted by Jeretle Hupeart8364 2021-08-13 09:00|| 2021-08-13 09:00|| Front Page Top

#14 g(r)omgoru, I believe I'd rather follow one of the 'low IQ' Aborigine fellows through an Aussie barren outback than a Harvard-grad 'Explorer' any day.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-08-13 11:17|| 2021-08-13 11:17|| Front Page Top

#15 If I could keep up with him, that is.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-08-13 11:18|| 2021-08-13 11:18|| Front Page Top

#16 Aussie fellow I new once (hearsay) said the 'rough' way to hunt the roos was to chase them all day, sleep in the rough, then just go and pick them up the next morning when they were too stiff to run away.

Aboriginal Hunting and Gathering

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-13 17:05|| 2021-08-13 17:05|| Front Page Top

#17 So that's how McDonald's got all that roo meat

. A place that actually was indicted for using kangaroo meat in their 100% beef product, but had enough money to keep it out of the media (and out of court).

Posted by Tyranysaurus Snusoger8836 2021-08-13 23:19|| 2021-08-13 23:19|| Front Page Top

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