top | item 39663651 (no title) 0x00_NULL | 2 years ago What is this nonsense? This whole news article doesn’t even link to the study. So ridiculous. That’s gotta break some journalism rule of some sort.It might be this one: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35254913/ discuss order hn newest defrost|2 years ago March 7, 2022 - Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesHalf of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhoodhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119Choice Quote: Significance We estimate population-level effects on IQ loss and find that lead is responsible for the loss of 824,097,690 IQ points as of 2015. ( The link given here on HN is to an NBC news article from March 8, 2022, about that PNAS publication. ) wrycoder|2 years ago "The average lead-linked loss in cognitive ability was 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015." load replies (2)
defrost|2 years ago March 7, 2022 - Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesHalf of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhoodhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119Choice Quote: Significance We estimate population-level effects on IQ loss and find that lead is responsible for the loss of 824,097,690 IQ points as of 2015. ( The link given here on HN is to an NBC news article from March 8, 2022, about that PNAS publication. ) wrycoder|2 years ago "The average lead-linked loss in cognitive ability was 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015." load replies (2)
wrycoder|2 years ago "The average lead-linked loss in cognitive ability was 2.6 IQ points per person as of 2015." load replies (2)
defrost|2 years ago
Half of US population exposed to adverse lead levels in early childhood
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118631119
Choice Quote:
( The link given here on HN is to an NBC news article from March 8, 2022, about that PNAS publication. )wrycoder|2 years ago