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Lower cognitive ability linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus outbreak
National Academy of Sciences via PsyPost ^

Posted on 07/11/2020 7:51:14 AM PDT by BusterDog

"New research provides evidence that working memory and fluid intelligence are associated with engaging in social distancing in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The new study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

"The researchers also found that higher levels of fluid intelligence and agreeableness were associated with greater social distancing compliance. But the link between working memory and social distancing held even after controlling for these factors and others."

(Excerpt) Read more at psypost.org ...


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I find the results interesting, as I had always equated FluBrovianism to foolishness rather than cognitive disability.
1 posted on 07/11/2020 7:51:14 AM PDT by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

The Federal government probably paid for this study.


2 posted on 07/11/2020 7:53:04 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: BusterDog

Looks like BS


3 posted on 07/11/2020 7:53:41 AM PDT by goodnesswins (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution." -- Saul Alinksy)
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To: BusterDog

Seriously,this has to be from the Babylon Bee.


4 posted on 07/11/2020 7:54:08 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: BusterDog

First they told us that referencing IQ is racist but now they call it “cognitive ability” and say it proves we’re dumb if we don’t submit to their arbitrary authoritarian edicts.


5 posted on 07/11/2020 7:54:17 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: Sasparilla
The Federal Government probably paid for this USELESS study.

There...fixed it.

Typical of something the CDC would do.

6 posted on 07/11/2020 7:54:28 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: BusterDog

ultimately “masking” is about trying to establish “social credit scores” -with which compliance will be required to go anywhere-and even then only to “approved places” i.e visually, audibly “monitored” and “supervised” places.

somebody has figured out there’s way to much information being traded among people “they” can’t monitor


7 posted on 07/11/2020 7:54:43 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: BusterDog

I just assumed it was due to a lack of critical thinking skills. The FluBros myopically fixate on whatever is happening in Lubbock, TX, or Wichita, or wherever they happen to be, while ignoring the progression of the virus across the globe and the lessons to be learned from other countries’ efforts.


8 posted on 07/11/2020 7:55:33 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: BusterDog

Sounds like a way to marginalize differing opinions by making the dissenters sub-human.

We’ve seen this before, and it never turns out well...


10 posted on 07/11/2020 7:57:02 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: BusterDog

‘as I had always equated FluBrovianism to foolishness rather than cognitive disability.’

got your mask on while you’re posting this crap...?


11 posted on 07/11/2020 7:57:43 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: BusterDog

It’s not them, it’s you
If you don’t accept the science of a 14 yr old girl’s science fair project on “ social distancing”, you are a knuckle dragging mouth breather


12 posted on 07/11/2020 7:58:18 AM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: BusterDog

Note: Only applies to white people.

What a steaming pile of government excrement.


13 posted on 07/11/2020 7:59:12 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: BusterDog

This is what is left of “science.”


14 posted on 07/11/2020 8:00:38 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: BusterDog

They’re saying you’d be stupid to go near anybody.


15 posted on 07/11/2020 8:00:55 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Father in Heaven, I trust in Your love.)
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To: BusterDog

“Our random research shows that all the really Smart boys and girls will do exactly as they are told when it comes to wearing masks and social distancing. Greater compliance appears to equate with a greater satisfaction with self and increased admiration from their relative peer groups.

Don’t YOU want to be part of the Smart Group too?
We thought you would!”


16 posted on 07/11/2020 8:01:28 AM PDT by lee martell
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"In addition to collecting demographic information and assessing social distancing compliance, the surveys included assessments of working memory, personality, mood, and fluid intelligence."

I'd really like to see those surveys, and how they measured the characteristics it claimed to measure. This sounds like one of those studies in which the preferred outcome is obtained through manipulation of the methodology.
17 posted on 07/11/2020 8:01:39 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Grampa Dave

“more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.””


18 posted on 07/11/2020 8:02:28 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Sasparilla

Who did they pay? Greta Thunberg?


19 posted on 07/11/2020 8:02:49 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: BusterDog

Liberals will see this and go “those idiot Trump voters”, but the reality is it is the Black and Hispanic communities that are taking the brunt of the CCV (Outside of nursing homes), but the Media won’t be honest with who the virus is killing.

Trump voters boating or at gun shops don’t wear masks, but they aren’t the ones dying from the virus.


20 posted on 07/11/2020 8:03:41 AM PDT by UNGN
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