Flying SquidWas it really god that made you an asshole?
cheeseandriceI made this connection a month ago - that a couple of generations of humans grew up breathing exhaust from leaded gasoline and dust from lead paint and had a bit of an epiphany about the state of the world.
Dude. As a whole the world is stupider by several tens of IQ points solely in specifically due to lead poisoning.
Lead poisoning is the single most detrimental effect ever experienced by humanity so very few people even understand that!
That doesn’t even make sense
IQ test’s haven’t been around that long and they are based on averages. 100 being the standard
If everyone dropped by 5 then 95 would just be 100 so a generation can’t just have a worse IQ across the board
Below 75 means you have a disability so at most you have 25 points to work with meaning several tens is impossible
This statement right here ladies and gentlemen proves my point.
Lay off the paint chips buddy.
Back in the day paint used to have lead as an ingredient, people would use this to paint the inside of tunnels, over passes and buildings and other such things. As the years passed this lead paint peeled away into small chips that could, if one had the predilection, be eaten thus incurring lead poisoning.
Ingesting lead affects the brain especially the ability to process information efficiently thus making one stupider if they consumed enough lead.
Considering the pedantic nature of your comment I assumed that you may have ingested some of these chips and your thought process has slowed down.
Nothing you said has any relation to the claim that lead paint resulted in IQ scores being lower because as I said before. That is literally impossible when the mean of a test result is equal to 100
Did you think you wouldn’t be called out on a lie or were you just ignorant of the claim you were making?
Maybe you were ignorant of time and thought that a 100 year old test would somehow have a ton of historical data from people not exposed to led
Or you were ignorant of age and test bias thinking it fair to compare a 70 year old high school graduate with someone in college
Dude. Stop.
I was using IQ as a comparative device because most people know what that is and thus would be able to understand what I meant.
On average, according to some online sources most people will have an IQ somewhere between 85 and 115 that’s a difference of 30 points, or as I called it tens of points.
If humanity would have used less lead it is possible that average could have been substantially higher by tens of points which is a perfectly valid statement considering the 30 point difference in the average.
If humanity would have used less lead it is possible that average could have been substantially higher
Again, no
You don’t understand how averages work
people will have an IQ somewhere between 85 and 115 that’s a difference of 30 points, or as I called it tens of points.
This also shows you don’t understand averages. If you took 10% off everyone’s test then they would all still have the same IQ score
I was using IQ as a comparative device because most people know what that is and thus would be able to understand what I meant.
But you don’t even know what it means
Doubling down after being shown you were ignorant means you are an idiot
Cool. He doesn’t understand what it “means”. We get that. You clearly do. How is intelligence compared between generations then?
You don’t really compare it between generations because you go by age and averages
So when they were your age the average was 100, when you were your age the average was 100
If you are at 100 your whole life but when you turn 70 you’re at 80 then it should be a red flag that something is going on