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Do Parasites Make You Dumber?
ScienceNOW ^
| June 29, 2010
| Cassandra Willyard
Posted on 07/01/2010 8:55:14 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: Psalm 144
Oopsie - fail in geography. Must be worms.
China then.
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:35:06 PM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(The Democrats' mascot is a jackass. This is because they are asses who are in it for the jack.)
To: neverdem
“Do Parasites Make You Dumber?”
Surely they must. The plague in DC is a stark reminder of the ongoing crisis associated with these parasites.
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:35:25 PM PDT
by
takenoprisoner
(Freedom Watch: fight for freedom with everything you have.)
To: neverdem
They make me poorer by virtue of their lack of compulsion to pay taxes.
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:37:14 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: neverdem
Too many variables to be testable.
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:37:55 PM PDT
by
Havisham
To: neverdem
Too many variables to be testable.
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:38:04 PM PDT
by
Havisham
To: neverdem
A fine book.
As for the study, it is a bit too politically correct to take at face value.
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:38:37 PM PDT
by
TChad
To: Red Steel
You mean like Zombies?
(click the pic)
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:41:03 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: garbanzo
most correlations are spurious and/or non-causal. How could you know? IMHO, our ability to intuitively correlate, often with very imperfect knowledge, is what makes us great guessers. I think most human correlations (where there is smoke, there is fire) are likely to be correct. However, we also need to be humble and we need to try to begin to understand our limitations and our tendencies toward hubris and self-deceit.
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posted on
07/01/2010 9:49:44 PM PDT
by
Theophilus
(Not merely prolife, but prolific!)
To: Theophilus
How could you know? Highly simplified bayesian analysis. The universe of causal relationships is a subset of the universe of predictive relationships. The universe of predictive relationship (correlations) tends towards infinity. The universe of causal relationships is finite. Thus the likelihood that a predictive relationship is also a causal one is rather small and most correlations therefore are *probably* non-causal. Think of it as a Venn diagram where casual relationships are a tiny circle inside a much much larger circle of predictive relationships. Randomly throwing darts at the circle, you're much more likely to land outside the inner circle than inside it.
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posted on
07/01/2010 10:12:08 PM PDT
by
garbanzo
(Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
To: Mariner
How about the colder the temp(or harsher the enviornment) the folks had to be smarter to survive and so evolved.
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posted on
07/01/2010 10:12:20 PM PDT
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: neverdem; pandoraou812
Do Parasites Make You Dumber? If you listen to their leftist drivel; yes.
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posted on
07/01/2010 10:43:21 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Greenhouse Theory is false. Totally debunked. "GH gases" is a non-sequitur.)
To: neverdem
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posted on
07/01/2010 10:45:14 PM PDT
by
bornred
To: TigersEye
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posted on
07/01/2010 10:49:55 PM PDT
by
pandoraou812
(Merda taurorum animas conturbit......)
To: neverdem
On Futurama they make you super smart ;)
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posted on
07/01/2010 10:56:51 PM PDT
by
Trillian
To: neverdem
The obvious answer is areas with endemic disease have higher childhood mortality, and thus favor the production of greater numbers of children rather than investment in fewer children. The payoff to brain development is less in areas of greater endemic disease, as the brain's metabolically expensive upkeep provides no survival advantage against disease.
But this involves discussing nature rather than nurture, and that mustn't be.
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posted on
07/01/2010 11:10:50 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
They would find a higher association if they just looked at world temps vs IQ. There is a very high correlation just looking at the map.
To: Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...
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posted on
07/01/2010 11:26:17 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: stubernx98
I do think the weather has something to do with it...at least it did originally when people had to survive by their wits.
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posted on
07/01/2010 11:31:00 PM PDT
by
Aria
( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
To: OldDeckHand
I believe it is reasonably well-accepted science that population groups with reduced access to sufficient (or minimal) quantities complete proteins in their diet, suffer from compromised brain function.Do liberals eat less red meat? Could diet cause that particular disorder?
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posted on
07/01/2010 11:38:31 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: acapesket
I know, I know.
I’m sorry to hear about your friend. I’ve never heard of babesiosis before. Sounds horrible.
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posted on
07/01/2010 11:45:01 PM PDT
by
abigailsmybaby
( I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra)
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