Lead is a huge contributer but other things contribute to that as well. Its been said smog also contributed to the lowering of people's I.Q. especially in inner cities during the same era where environmental laws were often non-existent or very loose at best.
Still happening disproportionately in southern states, black communities, and ESPECIALLY black communities in southern states. Fucked from birth, what a shame
Yup. It's been eroding fast after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which required news sources to stick to facts, instead of, you know, the outright lies spewed by fox news
I was just thinking about this the other day. I have 3 siblings and we all grew up in a very old house in New Mexico (50’s/60’s). The paint was always peeling off the walls. The 4 of us grew up with all types of learning disabilities. I’m the only one of the 4 that finished high school and went to college (never finished) and it was a struggle. My mom was pretty sharp and always had good jobs…at a time when it was rare for a woman to succeed in her field. My dad died when I was very young from seizures, but all indications show he was no dummy. I’d like to think that had we grown up in different time and place our world would have been much better…and brighter.
by learning disabilities dont you mean like dyslexia and dyscalculia? because i thought the whole point was that they werent caused by low intelligence and sometimes run in families?
My sisters and I were exposed to lead poisoning at a young age. My parents were scraping paint off the walls of our very old house (I promise that aside from this, they are VERY good parents).
Similar situation, grew up in a house where almost every painted surface was cracked and flaking lead paint. Also had just....chunks of it laying around that I remember playing with (father was a metal worker and hoarder) I showed almost every symptom of lead poisoning as a child and now as a adult can barely function. Its such a shame, my parents were smart, and my sister who avoided growing up in that house is a genius, but I get treated like an idiot (i mean, I am, but i get treated like i need to just try having a better brain) anyway, its sad. Sorry you guys experienced this lead poisoning too.
I hope everyone realizes that the air, ground and water in the United States is actually cleaner than it was even a fifty years ago. And in some places even a hundred years ago. There was no EPA regulations back then. There was strip mining that put poisons in the water.that started in the 1850s . Industrial chemicals were just dumped in the water, or buried in unmarked sites ( which later became superfund clean up sites like Love Canal) . People died quicker from things like black lung. Lead was used in paint and to sodier water pipes. Radium was given as medicine in the 1920s and used in household products. Nuclear tests were conducted in the open air.
It also explains democrats who jerk themselves off thinking they're making a difference when both parties are literally trying to maintain the very Same status quo for the capital holding elite. You're both neoliberal scum, just form one giant "party of the bourgeoisie" and let the people actually run a candidate that opposes both of their bullshit.
Problem with this statement is that urban areas were definitely effected more and is still effected at a higher rate than rural/suburbs. We also know that historically urban areas vote blue.
Just look at the people who can read an article highlighting how lead exposure affects urban (D) populations far more than rural (R) populations yet still somehow turn it into a "right-wing bad" comment because their IQ has been so heavily affected they can't think of anything else to say.
Don't forget leaded gasoline was a thing for a long time in dirty-burning gas guzzlers. That pumped tons into the air for everyone everywhere to breathe.
I've been thinking this for years as more and more of the aging population inexplicably slips into dementia in earlier years. Whenever a new study comes out about the mysteries of mental decline all I think is "Lead. It's lead! Why is no one talking about air pollution and lead?"
The literature has been out there for decades. This is fairly accepted science at this point. But there's nothing to be done about it now (except get rid of our remaining lead pipes, paint, etc) so there's never really been a concerted effort to inform the public about it. It has become one of those problems that just gets swept under the rug because talking about it doesn't have any upside for the people in power or in control of the media.
Drug usage, bad chemical in everything that can be eatable/drinkable/breathable, bad habit/bad life style, kids having kids/dumb f***' having kids, etc. There is so many reason why human are the dumbest and in all end we are going directly to Idiocracy type of world (that's if we don't die before).
I’ve thought about this ever since I first found out about leaded gasoline years ago, and have always wondered just how much it contributed to the general lack of intelligence we see in much of humanity these days, particularly the Boomer generation. People always get defensive whenever you start discussing intelligence on an actual quantifiable level… it’s like nobody wants to admit there’s such a thing a measurable intelligence and always claim everything is just subjective. So most people seem unwilling to go down this road and actually fully analyze just how smart or dumb we really are. Wouldn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, after all, right?
While I don't doubt that this and other forms of pollution have had adverse effects on the health of millions of Americans, this seems dubious since IQ has no actual scientific basis in the first place.
What is this narrative that it’s all of a sudden lead is an issue when we solved this shit 38 years ago. This is why we removed leaded gasoline and leaded paint and glass and everything almost 4 decades ago.
I believe it. Look how we act and react to everything in America. One of the most violent places in Earth. Mass incarceration, corruption everywhere, irrational politicians and judges.
Surely there’s a civil case here against producers and sellers. They have a duty of care, and so far it looks like they destroyed quadrillions of brain cells and made many people stupid(er) in the USA. Take them to court people, before you’re too stupid to do so.
IQ is not real as normal people understands it, I am sorry to say that. It is fine at finding mentally challenged individuals, but trying to group it like that saying that everybody got a lower IQ does not make sense, firstly it is based on a the average. :-) if the the total average drops by 5% then the IQ does not move. Trying to say that people are getting cognitively more challenges as a society, I would need some more data than a single article. :-)
Lead concentration’s especially noteworthy in terms of distributional impact on ethnic/racial minorities. Remediation initiatives on an international scale could not only substantially boost global GDP, but also significantly improve academic outcomes across the board (Lead-> deleterious impact on cognitive development/IQ).
This is the type of shit I’ve been talking about forever. Heavy metals and chemicals run rampant in our land, food, water, and within our homes. People want something to blame, but our entire society is physically toxic. It was only a matter of time till it infiltrated our minds
1999 in the UK...apparently in London ,lead levels are still high ..I imagine that could be for a few cities ... Maybe the general state of education in the U.S is to blame .Selective education of subjects ... Still North Vs South ...🥱
May have lowered...MAY have lowered??!
You seem like you'd enjoy reading about the shit bag that invented leaded gasoline.
Lead exposure also reduces empathy and seems to increase, sadism.
Where’d you read that? I’m interested
A good knock to the head can have the same impact. Lead causes straight-up brain damage. Hats used to be lined with it.
Which leads to the theory that I subscribe to where leaded gasoline is to blame for the serial killer wave of the 60s-70s-80s
Trump success explained finally
Lead is a huge contributer but other things contribute to that as well. Its been said smog also contributed to the lowering of people's I.Q. especially in inner cities during the same era where environmental laws were often non-existent or very loose at best.
I think in the future we are going to find out certain petrochemicals and plastics are doing this right now.
I'm sure a study on microplastics will yield a similar effect either cognitive or increase in cancer
I mean, a lot of that smog was from leafed fuel so....
Same laws usually, but selectively enforced and punished.
Still happening disproportionately in southern states, black communities, and ESPECIALLY black communities in southern states. Fucked from birth, what a shame
No it is not.
How does the interact with the Flynn effect?
I wonder how much it correlates with state that have not invested into infrastructure.
Also depends on the states education system.
Seems like the opposite, lead intake was more common in urban areas then rural.
Half? That's nearly 30%!!
It's like 9/11 × 1,000,000
Really wish the algorithm hadn't put this on my feed because I'm currently really anxious about lead poisoning 😂
Get tested
Neurogenesis continues through your life, but as it's an expensive process, your body needs the right diet and low stress to invest the resources.
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Came here to say this, gotta be the easiest layup I’ve ever seen on this site.
Yup. It's been eroding fast after the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, which required news sources to stick to facts, instead of, you know, the outright lies spewed by fox news
That’s what happens when you kill an innocent Gorilla named Harambe🤷
I’d argue it started much earlier than 2016
I wonder what increases people IQ over time though?
The funny part of this comment is that the trumpets are positive it’s the libtards who were affected and vice versa
Yep, makes sense.
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sees the decisions Boomers make
Explains why they put carpet in bathrooms in the 70s and 80s
Yeah just look at the people running the country ffs. This is definitely true.
Hahaha
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Wouldn’t that likely include you then?
I was just thinking about this the other day. I have 3 siblings and we all grew up in a very old house in New Mexico (50’s/60’s). The paint was always peeling off the walls. The 4 of us grew up with all types of learning disabilities. I’m the only one of the 4 that finished high school and went to college (never finished) and it was a struggle. My mom was pretty sharp and always had good jobs…at a time when it was rare for a woman to succeed in her field. My dad died when I was very young from seizures, but all indications show he was no dummy. I’d like to think that had we grown up in different time and place our world would have been much better…and brighter.
by learning disabilities dont you mean like dyslexia and dyscalculia? because i thought the whole point was that they werent caused by low intelligence and sometimes run in families?
My sisters and I were exposed to lead poisoning at a young age. My parents were scraping paint off the walls of our very old house (I promise that aside from this, they are VERY good parents).
Similar situation, grew up in a house where almost every painted surface was cracked and flaking lead paint. Also had just....chunks of it laying around that I remember playing with (father was a metal worker and hoarder) I showed almost every symptom of lead poisoning as a child and now as a adult can barely function. Its such a shame, my parents were smart, and my sister who avoided growing up in that house is a genius, but I get treated like an idiot (i mean, I am, but i get treated like i need to just try having a better brain) anyway, its sad. Sorry you guys experienced this lead poisoning too.
“HAhA I bEt It wAs my pOLItIcAL OppOnEnts thAt thIs AppLIEs tO! LOL!”
makes sarcastic comment
And the boomer voters who vote for them
Near-future*
I hope everyone realizes that the air, ground and water in the United States is actually cleaner than it was even a fifty years ago. And in some places even a hundred years ago. There was no EPA regulations back then. There was strip mining that put poisons in the water.that started in the 1850s . Industrial chemicals were just dumped in the water, or buried in unmarked sites ( which later became superfund clean up sites like Love Canal) . People died quicker from things like black lung. Lead was used in paint and to sodier water pipes. Radium was given as medicine in the 1920s and used in household products. Nuclear tests were conducted in the open air.
Yeah, but this country is being run into the ground by people who huffed tetraethyllead during their developmental years.
That explains how Trump got elected.
I would have been so smart... but my crazy dad had open coal fires in the house. I remember lead and asbestos. I guess it's a good sign I remember.
I grew up with my grandmother and my grandfather worked in an asbestos factory. Needless to say I never met the man
I grew up partly around a lot of junk incineration. I wish there had been more outreach. My neighbors mostly had no clue how direct the risks were.
I know which half.
I think we know which half.
Uh, the half that was exposed to lead poisoning was the more urban half so…
Nothing has ever made more sense.
I know which half.
That explains a lot.
I have to say I’m not surprised
So THAT’S what happened to Republicans.
pretends to be shocked*
After the last 2 years, we know which half.
Well that explains a lot.
This is clear to see
I know which half
Florida makes a lot more sense now
explains a LOT
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This explains so much about American politics.
That explains a lot honestly.
I think cable is proof of that. We went from interesting scripted shows to channels filled with reality trash.
This actually explains a lot about Americans
This explains Trump!
This explains the Republican Party of today.
Rural areas are less affected by pollution though, and rural areas usually vote red
It also explains democrats who jerk themselves off thinking they're making a difference when both parties are literally trying to maintain the very Same status quo for the capital holding elite. You're both neoliberal scum, just form one giant "party of the bourgeoisie" and let the people actually run a candidate that opposes both of their bullshit.
Problem with this statement is that urban areas were definitely effected more and is still effected at a higher rate than rural/suburbs. We also know that historically urban areas vote blue.
Not a surprise, given the amount of trump supporters
American Public education + lead = dumb population
Neo-GOP has entered the chat
That explains A LOT
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Then fluoride lowered the IQ of both halves
Mainstream media hurt. Twitter/Facebook/tik tok killed it
We call them Republicans
It all makes sense.
Prolly planned tbh. Big achievement for corporations who need drones.
Or I’m just that fucking retarded.
Scientists constantly trying to find an excuse for willful ignorance. They just refuse to believe people can actually be that stupid for no reason.
No wonder boomers are so stupid
Just look at the MAGA crowd….
Just look at the people who can read an article highlighting how lead exposure affects urban (D) populations far more than rural (R) populations yet still somehow turn it into a "right-wing bad" comment because their IQ has been so heavily affected they can't think of anything else to say.
the amount of people in the comments bringing politics into this proves the article’s point
The half that voted Trump is my guess..
I was wondering why so many people voted for Trump. Mystery solved.
Don't forget leaded gasoline was a thing for a long time in dirty-burning gas guzzlers. That pumped tons into the air for everyone everywhere to breathe.
I can't believe anyone over the age of 60 is still alive when leaded gasoline was a thing.
Wait til they do the studies on the affect of social media; you'll wish people were pouring paint in their corn flakes.
And then they all voted for trump
That would explain why the boomers do what they do.
Well, that explains Republicans.
This explains alot
Well that explains a lot
That explains baby boomers.
Quell suprise
May have? I think it did
That's why nfts took off
I've been thinking this for years as more and more of the aging population inexplicably slips into dementia in earlier years. Whenever a new study comes out about the mysteries of mental decline all I think is "Lead. It's lead! Why is no one talking about air pollution and lead?"
The literature has been out there for decades. This is fairly accepted science at this point. But there's nothing to be done about it now (except get rid of our remaining lead pipes, paint, etc) so there's never really been a concerted effort to inform the public about it. It has become one of those problems that just gets swept under the rug because talking about it doesn't have any upside for the people in power or in control of the media.
I can guess which half…
Unfortunately all of them are currently in the Florida Legislature. Governor on down.
Maybe it was pretty low to start with?
I'm pretty sure I have growing up in a bad neighborhood full of lead to thank for my lifetime of struggle with ADHD.
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Explains a lot about our cousins from across the pond..
I can tell.
MAY HAVE.. YOU ELECTED TRUMP!
Red states
Trump supporters must have been suckling on lead lollipops and wondered why they never got smaller
That explains the republicans in a nutshell.
This explains a lot of things
This explains a lot.
That explains a lot. Just wait until we find out what all these new materials in pharmaceuticals and plastics are doing.
That explains it. 😕
Explains a lot
Is that why everybody has gone nuts?
Explains alot ...not racism, bigotry, anti semitisim and being fat though..🤣
Hey man nice post. Quick question though,
Explains a lot
No question it has. Tromp supporters are living proof a declining IQs in America
This explains the Trump vote.
That explains all the Democrats.
That explains all the liberals.
Drug usage, bad chemical in everything that can be eatable/drinkable/breathable, bad habit/bad life style, kids having kids/dumb f***' having kids, etc. There is so many reason why human are the dumbest and in all end we are going directly to Idiocracy type of world (that's if we don't die before).
Sounds about write in Americuh!🇺🇸
Yes, unfortunately those affected by lead exposure are now referred to as Trump supporters. Handicapped is not politically correct anymore.
Trump voters eat lead
Flourides did the rest. Smell my finger?
What explains the IQ loss of the other half?
What up
Sadly more than half
Maybe the old Urban tale of us only using 10% of our brain turns out to be oh look a squirrel!
just half?
IQ isn’t fucking real...
Only half? I'm pretty sure that's a very low estimate
Like their iq
I’ve thought about this ever since I first found out about leaded gasoline years ago, and have always wondered just how much it contributed to the general lack of intelligence we see in much of humanity these days, particularly the Boomer generation. People always get defensive whenever you start discussing intelligence on an actual quantifiable level… it’s like nobody wants to admit there’s such a thing a measurable intelligence and always claim everything is just subjective. So most people seem unwilling to go down this road and actually fully analyze just how smart or dumb we really are. Wouldn’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, after all, right?
Yep, them lead pipes to the head had some consequences.
And agent orange for soldier
BOLLOCKS
While I don't doubt that this and other forms of pollution have had adverse effects on the health of millions of Americans, this seems dubious since IQ has no actual scientific basis in the first place.
Whut
What is this narrative that it’s all of a sudden lead is an issue when we solved this shit 38 years ago. This is why we removed leaded gasoline and leaded paint and glass and everything almost 4 decades ago.
Each and everyone of you has failed
Something had to make me this stupid
Just half?
Idiocracy is almost not a parody lmao
Thanks Charles Kettering, and Pierre duPont
Story checks out.
Only half?
I believe it. Look how we act and react to everything in America. One of the most violent places in Earth. Mass incarceration, corruption everywhere, irrational politicians and judges.
And people in every other country with lots of vehicles using leaded gasoline, too.
Surely there’s a civil case here against producers and sellers. They have a duty of care, and so far it looks like they destroyed quadrillions of brain cells and made many people stupid(er) in the USA. Take them to court people, before you’re too stupid to do so.
And McDonald’s is responsible for the other half. In general Americans really have a scarily low IQ
This link has been shared 5 times.
Or everyone I interact with daily.
Was the fall of the Roman Empire, now will be the fall of the American…
Half Americans, you say? It all makes sense now.
Checks out...
I hear some case of people suffering from “long covid” when they have ‘brain fog’, I wonder if this could be similar in reducing IQ for some people.
Least surprising revelation
I think it's spelled ledd bud! (Too soon for jokes? Am European so still have full IQ)
IQ is not real as normal people understands it, I am sorry to say that. It is fine at finding mentally challenged individuals, but trying to group it like that saying that everybody got a lower IQ does not make sense, firstly it is based on a the average. :-) if the the total average drops by 5% then the IQ does not move. Trying to say that people are getting cognitively more challenges as a society, I would need some more data than a single article. :-)
So that is why (opposing political party) is so fucking stupid!
daily I assume
Any chance lead exposure could increase the risk of Alzheimer’s?
Lowered by half.
Gives a new meaning to "Ok, boomer"
My cats breth smells like cat food.
Is this why states without car smog regulations are full of idiots?
Lead concentration’s especially noteworthy in terms of distributional impact on ethnic/racial minorities. Remediation initiatives on an international scale could not only substantially boost global GDP, but also significantly improve academic outcomes across the board (Lead-> deleterious impact on cognitive development/IQ).
Also turned them into criminals. Lead is a neurotoxin that destroys the brains ability to think about the consequences of one’s actions.
This is the type of shit I’ve been talking about forever. Heavy metals and chemicals run rampant in our land, food, water, and within our homes. People want something to blame, but our entire society is physically toxic. It was only a matter of time till it infiltrated our minds
1999 in the UK...apparently in London ,lead levels are still high ..I imagine that could be for a few cities ... Maybe the general state of education in the U.S is to blame .Selective education of subjects ... Still North Vs South ...🥱
This may explain the seemingly enormous number of people who lack critical thinking skills and swallow conspiracies whole.
Nearly have of all Americans are of below average intelligence
This certainly didn't help
Ahh, it finally adds up.
I think boomers must have lost quite a bit more than that since they're deliberately blocking climate change solutions.
That isn|t a maybe and the aggresion is also increased.