https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-linked-to-significant-drop-in-intelligence-research-1.5524877
I always wondered why ANTIVAXXERS had lower intelligence levels than the rest of the population.
Now it ALL makes sense.
I LOVE science!
🙂
First off, why are you assuming those who have not been unvaccinated have automatically gotten Covid-19?
You're conflating unvaccinated with COVID recovered person. These groups are not necessarily mutually exclusive, but they are not the same group.
Also, vaccinated people can still get COVID.
Some notes that even an autistic Canadian could figure out:
Importantly, the study said that only 275 participants had completed the intelligence test both before and after contracting COVID-19.
Out of 81,337 participants, only 13,000 reported they had contracted the novel coronavirus [self-reported, no doubt, based on the fraudulently used PCR test], and only 275 used the control necessary to draw proper conclusions for this study.
That's only 0.34%.
It's ultimately only a study of 275 people. That's not the worst sample size I've seen - but it's pretty bad.
For the rest of the participants, the researchers said they employed a linear model to predict general cognitive performance, or premorbid intelligence, based on age (to the third order), sex, handedness, ethnicity, first language, country of residence, occupational status, and earnings.
Because the models used throughout this "crisis" by the propped up media cherry-picked "experts" have been so accurate this whole time, right?
“Predicted and observed general performance correlated substantially, providing a proxy measure of premorbid intelligence of comparable performance to common explicit tests such as the National Adult Reading Test,” the study stated.
I'm sorry, but this is a word salad. It sounds smart to the layman, but
what are they saying here?
What’s more, the academics also found that their intelligence estimates for individuals pre-illness indicated that those who contracted COVID-19 were actually likely to have had a “somewhat higher as opposed to lower cognitive ability” before they were sick.
Based on what control? Higher or lower than
what?The gold standard for intelligence in psychometric testing remains IQ, and there is no mention of it here. Why? I am skeptical of any study on intelligence that doesn't use IQ as a metric.
After controlling for those factors, they found that those who had COVID-19 underperformed when compared to those who never contracted the disease.
Irrelevant. What matters is if they underperformed compared to
how they themselves performed previously.
