By: bottle
> And perhaps a third factor is at work here – higher education could lead to both greater intelligence and the knowledge to avoid common infections That’s a contentious area of course. I would say...
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However, maybe HIV is one example of infection where individual knowledge about how to avoid the infection (both in terms of sex and needle sharing) is crucially important. And not only is that...
View ArticleBy: Matt Greenall
The claim on HIV struck a bum note with me. I’ve worked on designing and evaluating HIV prevention programmes in quite a few poor (and highish HIV prevalence) countries, and with the most vulnerable...
View ArticleBy: Mark Doherty
The evidence that IQ is modifiable by education and social background is substantial. The evidence that parasitic infection correlates with socio-economic status is also substantial. We’ve just...
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maby people who have a higher IQ are less likely to get a parasite rather then the lack of parasites making their IQ higher?
View ArticleBy: Geoff Russell
Good article and good comments … particularly Zimmer’s links. Even if this correlation turns out to be causal, and Zimmer’s links strenthen this plausibility, it has nothing to do with the Flynn effect...
View ArticleBy: Geoff Russell
The Zimmer links look convincing until you look at: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/320/7251/1697 Which does a thorough review and finds the evidence that helminth treatment improves either growth or...
View ArticleBy: Clay Farris Naff
You nailed it. Correlation is not causation. It’s all too easy to think of ways that parasitical infection could be a proxy for other factors — malnutrition, lack of mentally stimulating environment,...
View ArticleBy: GoFlex Satellite
Before the trolls even start, (you know who you are), I purchased the GoFlex Satellite for my the wife and I (two 32GB Wifi iPads) and using it on our trip to Las Vegas was great but the one gripe I...
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