It ain't the air ...
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.
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.
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.
Now the rich get to breathe better air?
Air pollution only affects minority children? Man, that white privilege really comes in handy.
Are they certain that whites are privileged, because its starting to sound like whites are a super race, immune to a the common problems that afflict lesser peoples.
I’m astounded that the target audience for this gibberish doesn’t recognize how closely it mirrors white supremacist rhetoric. No its not genetics that the Left identifies for whites doing better, but in a way it is, as the clear implication is that whites are immune to all of these problems that afflict non-whites.
IQ is hereditary. Maybe these less intelligent kids have less intelligent parents who don’t keep their children away from exposure to pollutants.
Poorer children eat more “free” government breakfast and lunch via government programs? Perhaps, government food is lowering their IQ’s?