Coronavirus: Compliance with social distancing during early stages linked to working memory, study finds

Fox News ^ | July 12, 2020 | Frank Miles

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The study, "Working memory capacity predicts individual differences in social-distancing compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States," assessed the working memory, personality, mood and fluid intelligence of test subjects; the researchers surveyed 850 U.S. residents between March 13 and March 25..."The decision of whether or not to follow social distancing guidelines is a difficult one,...This decision critically relies on our mental capacity in retaining multiple pieces of potentially conflicting information in our head, which is referred to as working memory capacity," study author Weizhen Xie (Zane) told PsyPost.

[moovova]

In other words...this guy should change his name to “Karen”.

[moovova]

“Wash yer keyboard!”

[Jan_Sobieski]

Everything I needed to know about Coronavirus I learned from the Infected Cruise ships in the Pacific. A perfect microcosm resulting in 2 dead 90 year olds.

If the disease is so deadly, why do we have to test the entire population to know who has it?

[JCL3]

If the disease is so deadly, why do we have to test the entire population to know who has it?
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So the campaign of “Panic The Public” can continue unabated.
It should be over by Nov 4th only to be replaced by chaos regardless of the Tuesday outcome.

It may taper off when we reach 180,000 deaths based on the Disaster Princess “clinical trial” and the Sweden “clinical trial”. Reporting of deaths has been carefully pushed off of the reporting, now it is “CASES ARE RISING TOO FAST!!! PANIC NOW AND AVOID THE RUSH!” mantra.

[Wuli]

1. The supposed difference they measured ignored a bigger factor - different values used in weighing the decisions. Instead, they automatically suggest and assume that some choices about a decision have a higher “rational” value than others.

2. “Being rational”, “using reason” and “rationality” are processes, not values. Absent a recognition of many subjective factors in the setting of values, choices of values, and priorities of values it cannot be said that one choice is more rational than another.

3. This report has been played here before, trying to support the theory that “public covid19 experts” (a) know what they are doing and (b) are always right.

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