Babies born during COVID-19 pandemic tied with lower IQ, study suggests

[shockedcanadian]

Remember according to some "we don't need to know the origins of the virus" as newborns are punished for our cowardice.

The Wuhan Virus is the gift from the CCP that keeps giving. The weakest leadership in history of the West.

West will ensure it continues without a hitch. "Shhh, be quiet honey, you don't want to upset the emperor!"

Angry yet?

Babies born during COVID-19 pandemic tied with lower IQ, study suggests

Preliminary findings by U.S. researchers suggest children born during the COVID-19 pandemic show lower IQ scores than those who were born before January 2020, but the underlying causes are still unknown.

www.foxnews.com

Preliminary findings by U.S. researchers suggest children born during the COVID-19 pandemic show lower IQ scores than those who were born before January 2020, but the underlying causes are still unknown.

It may be due to the first 1,000 days of a child’s life being the most crucial to development.

The findings were posted in medRxiv ahead of peer review on Aug. 11, stemming from a survey among roughly 605 children in Rhode Island, most of them White, including 39 born in 2018 and 2019.


Environmental factors, including maternal mental and physical health, nutrition, stimulation and supportive caregiving can alter the child’s development.

The study of pre-pandemic babies shows that they had an IQ ranging from 98.5 to 107.3.

But the IQs of babies born during the pandemic sharply fell 27 to 37 points.

The study attributed lockdown policies aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 such as economic shutdowns, mask-wearing, school disruptions, social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

 

[idb]

Remember according to some "we don't need to know the origins of the virus"

Who says this?

 

[whitehall]

Babies born to pregnant mothers who were vaccinated?

 

[Polishprince]

The speech ability of the babies has to be really hindered. Babies learn how to talk by looking at older people speak. With everyone's face behind a mask in perpetuity- speech therapists are going to be in tremendous demand.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

This is great news for the Democrats.
They need more dumb people to keep them in power.

 

[Pete7469]

How do you perform an IQ test on an 18 month old Toddler and then extrapolate tests on a few thousand tests and come up with a nation wide statistic???

Especially if you're conducting the tests in urban areas where most of the fuckin adults are blithering idiots?


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[Yarddog]

Remember according to some "we don't need to know the origins of the virus" as newborns are punished for our cowardice.

The Wuhan Virus is the gift from the CCP that keeps giving. The weakest leadership in history of the West.

West will ensure it continues without a hitch. "Shhh, be quiet honey, you don't want to upset the emperor!"

Angry yet?

Babies born during COVID-19 pandemic tied with lower IQ, study suggests

Preliminary findings by U.S. researchers suggest children born during the COVID-19 pandemic show lower IQ scores than those who were born before January 2020, but the underlying causes are still unknown.

www.foxnews.com

Preliminary findings by U.S. researchers suggest children born during the COVID-19 pandemic show lower IQ scores than those who were born before January 2020, but the underlying causes are still unknown.

It may be due to the first 1,000 days of a child’s life being the most crucial to development.

The findings were posted in medRxiv ahead of peer review on Aug. 11, stemming from a survey among roughly 605 children in Rhode Island, most of them White, including 39 born in 2018 and 2019.


Environmental factors, including maternal mental and physical health, nutrition, stimulation and supportive caregiving can alter the child’s development.

The study of pre-pandemic babies shows that they had an IQ ranging from 98.5 to 107.3.

But the IQs of babies born during the pandemic sharply fell 27 to 37 points.

The study attributed lockdown policies aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 such as economic shutdowns, mask-wearing, school disruptions, social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

mask wearing would have a lot to do with it. Babies learn a lot from facial expression and thats a part of the human brain I dont even think we understand
We may be raising a generation of detatched serial killers for all you know

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Exactly HOW do you test a BABY for any level of intelligence quotient???

 

[bodecea]

Babies born to pregnant mothers who were vaccinated?

That would be fast considering it takes 9 months gestation.

 

[White 6]

Remember according to some "we don't need to know the origins of the virus" as newborns are punished for our cowardice.

The Wuhan Virus is the gift from the CCP that keeps giving. The weakest leadership in history of the West.

West will ensure it continues without a hitch. "Shhh, be quiet honey, you don't want to upset the emperor!"

Angry yet?

Babies born during COVID-19 pandemic tied with lower IQ, study suggests

Preliminary findings by U.S. researchers suggest children born during the COVID-19 pandemic show lower IQ scores than those who were born before January 2020, but the underlying causes are still unknown.

www.foxnews.com

Preliminary findings by U.S. researchers suggest children born during the COVID-19 pandemic show lower IQ scores than those who were born before January 2020, but the underlying causes are still unknown.

It may be due to the first 1,000 days of a child’s life being the most crucial to development.

The findings were posted in medRxiv ahead of peer review on Aug. 11, stemming from a survey among roughly 605 children in Rhode Island, most of them White, including 39 born in 2018 and 2019.


Environmental factors, including maternal mental and physical health, nutrition, stimulation and supportive caregiving can alter the child’s development.

The study of pre-pandemic babies shows that they had an IQ ranging from 98.5 to 107.3.

But the IQs of babies born during the pandemic sharply fell 27 to 37 points.

The study attributed lockdown policies aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 such as economic shutdowns, mask-wearing, school disruptions, social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

I saw that article yesterday. It is not conclusive and has not been peer reviewed. I find it hard to believe that healthy kids of healthy parents during the last two years would have lower IQ, when spending more time with their parents, rather than baby sitters, while their mother would normally be going back to work. Sounds like statist/socialist babble to me.

 

[WinterBorn]

The actual IQ tests are pretty involved written tests. How in the hell do you test the IQ of an infant? Developmental milestones? Those can vary widely, even among siblings.

 

[Pete7469]

Exactly HOW do you test a BABY for any level of intelligence quotient???

If the "mother" looks like this...

That fuckin baby is retarded.....



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[SassyIrishLass]

I'd be curious as how they test a baby's IQ.

I've never heard of such a thing given IQ tests are written

Perhaps they meant development?

 

[toobfreak]

Babies born during COVID-19 pandemic tied with lower IQ, study suggests​

That would be perfect. Lots and lots of oxygen deprived baby brains caused by making infants out of the womb catch their first breaths from behind cheap paper masks! Better a dead baby than a viral baby, right? Besides, lower IQs fit right in with the democrat voter march and recruitment needs. Make those kids all breath the excess CO2 their polluting parents foisted upon the planet!

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

The actual IQ tests are pretty involved written tests. How in the hell do you test the IQ of an infant? Developmental milestones? Those can vary widely, even among siblings.

There are certain tests they perform, but yes, .40-.49 (dependent upon testing method) correlation is moderately accurate.


Tests of visual novelty preference tell us that the infant has the ability to know the world. If such processes of knowledge acquisition underlie performance on intelligence tests later in life, it is justifiable to assume that their exercise early in life represents intelligent activity on the part of the infant. Hence, it comes as no surprise to find that measures of visual novelty preference derived during infancy are related to later intellectual functioning. Various meta-analyses (Bornstein & Sigman, 1986; Fagan & Singer, 1983) have found median correlations of about .45 between infant performance and later IQ. Studies employing more tests of visual novelty preferences and/or sampling from populations with a wider range of IQ have yielded somewhat higher correlations between early novelty preferences and later IQ. Fagan and Montie (1988) report a correlation of .49 between a test of 12 visual novelty problems administered to 128 children between 3-7 months and scores on standard intelligence tests at 3 years (IQ range = 25-135). S

http://infantest.com/ftii.pdf

 

[shockedcanadian]

Remember according to some "we don't need to know the origins of the virus"

Who says this?

I've heard it stated directly to me on here, maybe not for awhile, but I've been scolded for daring to ask the question. I receive even more defiant pushback on social media from Canadians.

 

[toobfreak]

I'd be curious as how they test a baby's IQ. I've never heard of such a thing given IQ tests are written Perhaps they meant development?

The actual IQ tests are pretty involved written tests. How in the hell do you test the IQ of an infant?

Actually, one can make direct and indirect observations of infants which suggest advanced, normal or problematic intelligence development. Obviously, you can't give a 1 year old a normal IQ test, but there are other methods which can offer insights:

1. Giving children mechanical and empirical tests given to other kids who, later in life gained superior or inferior mental development under trained observation, which is then compared back to other kids to see similar developmental patterns. Patterns seen in new kids is then presumed a likely precursor to follow the development already seen in other test subjects.
2. Various toys to play with which indicate spacial and pattern recognition, memory, association, good social development, keen alertness to ones environment through sensory input.
3. Believe it or not, scribbling and doodling and other uses of crayons and things as the same things and patterns which our brains project as older adults---- loops, lines, dots, etc., still mean the same things to a baby. For instance, loops indicate one's grasp of and use of imagination in various areas of our lives as the loop represents the brain's desire to get hold of and encircle an idea.
4. General behavior such as a baby's response to the mother's voice or others sounds in the room, use of the eyes, hands, facial expressions, interacting with other babies, etc.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The actual IQ tests are pretty involved written tests. How in the hell do you test the IQ of an infant? Developmental milestones? Those can vary widely, even among siblings.

Agreed, each of our children reached milestones at different ages, our son's crawled and walked earlier than our daughters but the daughters led in potty training, etc. Even then they progressed at different ages.

I'm not buying into this. Each child is different

 

[Asclepias]

Remember according to some "we don't need to know the origins of the virus" as newborns are punished for our cowardice.

I dont recall anyone saying that but how is knowing the origins going to elevate anyones intelligence?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Actually, one can make direct and indirect observations of infants which suggest advanced, normal or problematic intelligence development. Obviously, you can't give a 1 year old a normal IQ test, but there are other methods which can offer insights:

1. Giving children mechanical and empirical tests given to other kids who, later in life gained superior or inferior mental development under trained observation, which is then compared back to other kids to see similar developmental patterns. Patterns seen in new kids is then presumed a likely precursor to follow the development already seen in other test subjects.
2. Various toys to play with which indicate spacial and pattern recognition, memory, association, good social development, keen alertness to ones environment through sensory input.
3. Believe it or not, scribbling and doodling and other uses of crayons and things as the same things and patterns which our brains project as older adults---- loops, lines, dots, etc., still mean the same things to a baby. For instance, loops indicate one's grasp of and use of imagination in various areas of our lives as the loop represents the brain's desire to get hold of end encircle an idea.
4. General behavior such as a baby's response to the mother's voice or others sounds in the room, use of the eyes, hands, facial expressions, interacting with other babies, etc.

Possibly but I'm skeptical