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According to the article: Leaded gasoline consumption rose rapidly in the early 1960s and peaked in the 1970s. As a result, Reuben and his colleagues found tha
by discardedrefuse 5y ago
According to the article:
Leaded gasoline consumption rose rapidly in the early 1960s and peaked in the 1970s. As a result, Reuben and his colleagues found that essentially everyone born during those two decades are all but guaranteed to have been exposed to pernicious levels of lead from car exhaust.
- gordian-mind 5y agoSo lowering the general IQ in a society by a few points means an explosion in crime?
- mark-r 5y agoI don't believe it is the decrease in IQ that causes the crime, rather that both effects are correlated because they have the same root cause.