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> For example, drug use can result in being kicked off sports teams, suspensions, things that could hinder intellectual development. Drug use can also be a sym
by CameronNemo 6y ago
> For example, drug use can result in being kicked off sports teams, suspensions, things that could hinder intellectual development.
Drug use can also be a symptom of a poor mental state, for example that induced by social exclusion or poor mentorship.
In such a situation the casual graph would look like:
/¯¯¯ Kid uses drugs
Kid not feeling great ---
\___ Kid does bad in school, allowing cognitive skills to languish
- alextheparrot 6y agoI like this dialogue, because my first hypothesis (Which I didn’t want to encumber the original post with) was that , given the high base percent of users (85% or so and above), it seemed use would likely not be correlated with less social interaction, but that lack of use might be. Peer pressure doesn’t work without peers, as a DARE officer would probably say. Maybe there are introverted individuals or closed-group social circles that are just performing better, one descriptor of those groups being the lack of substance use (Or use of a more limited set of substances, like alcohol only). Irrespective, I think these types of questions are more useful in helping kids grow up intelligent than this study is (If we assume their focus on measuring intellect references is actually out of concern for how well students are doing)