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Is it certain that the Pb causes the lower IQ or maybe there is some other factor and poorer people happen to have higher concentration?
by kukx 5y ago
Is it certain that the Pb causes the lower IQ or maybe there is some other factor and poorer people happen to have higher concentration?
- LordDragonfang 5y agoIt's been pretty well accepted for decades that this is the case: >A highly significant association was found between lead exposure and children's IQ (P < 0.001)... There was no evidence that the effect was limited to disadvantaged children and there was a suggestion of the opposite. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8162884/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8162884/ That's a 1994 meta-study that turned up in 30 seconds of googling, and I'm sure more recent evidence also exists.
- raegis 5y agoIt one of the most impactful studies on how lead affects intellectual development, the researcher (who is white) restricted the study to white people only because he assumed (correctly) his results would be ignored if he included African Americans who are disproportionately affected by lead poisoning.
- trophycase 5y agoHow can you assume correctly if you aren't even testing that assumption?