The study in this post finds that to be not true (emphasis mine): > Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are signifi

The study in this post finds that to be not true (emphasis mine): > Overall, we find that measured verbal, non-verbal, and overall cognitive scores are significantly lower since the beginning of the pandemic. Looking further, we find that children born before the pandemic and followed through the initial stages do not show a reduction in skills or performance, but rather that young infants born since the beginning of the pandemic show significantly lower performance than in- fants born before January 2019. Thus, our results seem to suggest that early development is impaired by the environmental conditions brought on by the pandemic.