Posted on 05/26/2015 5:21:54 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
The city’s air is polluting children’s brains.
Big Apple kids exposed to high levels of airborne filth and economic hardship have lower IQs that will haunt them into adulthood, according to an exhaustive, first-of-its-kind study by Columbia University.
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Researchers reached the alarming conclusion by tracking the development of 276 minority children from Harlem, Washington Heights and the South Bronx for seven years — starting while their moms were pregnant.
The kids who were exposed to the most pollutants and came from the poorest families scored 6.6 points lower on the overall IQ test than others in the group. ......
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Liberalism is polluting the airwaves.
And did the results present themselves in the form of a bell curve?
Might explain the preponderance of liberals in NYC as well as the attitude that they're superior to the rest of the county (goes with liberalism) when they're clearly not.
News flash: when they move to Miami, they don’t get any smarter...
Sure you can. They started out with the assumption that it is the fault of pollution caused by white people and then went and looked for the data that supported that hypothesis.
By putting the blame on white privilege no blame can be placed on growing up in a single parent family surrounded by drug dealers and other assorted criminal types.
On the larger scale of “socioeconomic disadvantage can increase the adverse effects of toxic physical ‘stressors’ like air pollutants.”
Socioeconomic disadvantaged kids in previous generations, in fact I can remember the pictures depicting 1900s London scene, must have lower IQ’s too?
Are we not supposed to say that?
I’m just surprised they didn’t blame it on global warming too.
Dont tell me.
The solution is more taxes and freedom crushing government regulations, correct?
Especially how it affects the poor children most.
I call BS. NYC was practically covered in coal dust (far dirtier than diesel) for 150+ years until we switched to gas. And before that, even larger clouds of wood smoke blanketed the city. Some of the most intelligent and influential people on earth have hailed from such places.
Smoke was a pretty much daily part of life in cities until the switch to gas/electric just before WW2. Not to mention all the people freely smoking big pipes and rolled cigs indoors.
Definitely more funding for education system, yes.
Researchers (even those in ivory towers) got to eat, too.
The commie lib “academics” have all lost their minds. They are all certifiably nuts.
“...Big Apple kids exposed to high levels of airborne filth and economic hardship have lower IQs.”
Airborne filth????
Yep, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and a host of liberal marxist papers, TV, and mags along with liberal websites. You can throw in the entertainment industry along with it. However, the worst source of airborne filth comes from the public school and college mind altering industries.
Economic hardship comes from the removal of their spines and extraction of the work ethic from their minds.
Come on—NYC has NEVER been more polluted than it is right now. [/s]
Aside from that New York City doesn’t exactly have a shortage of affluent, privately educated students breathing the same air.
I thought it was the music they were exposed to that lowered their IQ.
I always thought it was something in the water...
Not the air, but the public schools.
Don’t forget the horse dung that covered the roads and would dry up and blow into the air.
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