[CharlesOConnell]

While discussing masks mandates, author Naomi Wolf expresses shock that a new study from Brown University — which suggests a 21% drop in children’s IQ during the pandemic — is not front page news.

In the decade preceding the pandemic, the mean IQ score on standardized tests for children aged between three months and three years of age hovered around 100, but for children born during the pandemic that number tumbled to 78.

They added mask-wearing by adults may have also impacted babies’ development because children were less able to learn from facial cues.

But this angle was not fully investigated:

“One aspect also not investigated here is the impact of mask-wearing by the study staff during child visits and assessments . The inability of infants to see full facial expressions may have eliminated non-verbal cues, muffled instructions, or otherwise altered the understanding of the test questions and instructions.”

[mewzilla]

Quelle suprise.

They aren’t masks.

They’re muzzles.

And CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.

[mewzilla]

Speaking of publik skrewls, check out the vid. Note how much is made of our scientific expert betters...

Fauci won’t like this…

The laughter from the audience doesn't go over well.

And keep in mind that PHDs have a very high rate of refuseniks.

Note to parents: Be sure to mention that last bit at meetings when public employees treat you like idiots.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A key stage in this process of vast historical time sweep, was B.F. Skinner's work, in a long chain of Prussian-style behavioral psychology, in which he confined his infant daughter Deborah in a Skinner box in which she wasn't allowed to be touched.

This never happened.

[Openurmind]

Tell you what... I helped my Grandkids with their lockdown online schooling for several weeks back at the beginning. And the Google classroom software they were using was an absolute train wreck of irrational insanity. I shook my head the whole time completely bewildered at how absolutely none of it made any sense at all.

I made many many calls to the teachers pointing out what a dysfunctional mess it really was. They actually agreed after items were pointed out. “But we have to use it” was all they could say. It would not even let them turn in thier work after it was completed half the time. Even the teachers could not get it to work for them either.

[Chickensoup]

of course computers and screens are implicated.

There are studies from the fifties that show IQ drop between two different communities one with cable and one without.

All screens drop IQ

you want to have outstanding children, No screens, a lot of 3 d work coloring clay building, waldorf or other programs

My kids were nothing really outstanding IQ wise.

However next to their peers who were all screen monkeys, they stand out. They developed brains.

[hanamizu]

OK, I majored in psychology a lifetime ago and I was taught that IQ was pretty much innate. Yes you could lower your IQ via brain damage, but other than that it pretty much stays the same. I can’t see how ChromeBook use could lower kids’ IQs.

That said, being a geezer who taught during the invasion of computers into the classroom, I pretty much avoided using the ‘wonderful’ new technology on offer with my students. I figured that the one thing my kids didn’t lack in their lives was screen time. They need a whole lot more book time. Actually reading books for minutes at a time.

[BobL]

Not a problem for me or my kids. Even though there were smart phones and plenty of computer games when my kids grew up, my kids NEVER got one of their own. The purpose of being a kid is to grow up and learn...not waste your life away.

Of course I understand others, including most of my relatives, who look at these devices as free ‘baby sitting’...the same relatives who send their kids to public schools.

...just to wonder why they won’t leave home and can’t seem to make anything of themselves even when they’re 25.

[Mr. Blond]

IQ doesn’t drop, that’s not how IQ works. They’re measuring something else entirely.