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Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores (theconversation.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/science@lemmy.world

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From the article:

"....two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine shed further light on the profound toll of COVID-19 on cognitive health." And in other studies cases "with mild to moderate COVID-19 showed significant prolonged inflammation of the brain and changes that are commensurate with seven years of brain aging."

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[–] iAmTheTot@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't IQ kinda bullshit, anyway?

[–] ted@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IQ is sort of bullshit, but it's a measurement.

Equating IQ to overall intelligence is fruitless. It's like asking the weather and only taking the temperature.

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

As a psychologist, high IQ is whatever, but low IQ is good in attempting to understand some individual's behaviors or even classify kids into special ed classes for a cognitive learning deficiency.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Did they ask the exact same questions as before? If they did, it would probably skew the results. If they didn't, it would also probably skew the results.

[–] excel@lemmy.megumin.org 1 points 1 year ago

If they ask the SAME question and you score still goes DOWN I’m gonna go ahead and call that “a bad sign”.