Even Binet, who invented the IQ-tests, insisted that it can be used
only to separate debility and sanity, not to measure small
differences. The paper is mute on the most difficult part to assess,
like such a difference. I am not sure such comparision must be itself
compared with other "drug", like making similar tests, assuminf they
makes sense, which I doubt. How evolve the IQ of people looking
everyday at TV, and "sober" people, or alcoholic?
To be sure I have not yet found the most typical error in statistics
in that field, so that paper might be less wrong than usual, but still
not very convincing, especially in the conclusion. The policy does not
make sense, especially that we are systematically dis-informed about
the real outcomes of basically all medication/drugs, and this will
last as long as people will accept the nonsensical prohibition (of
food and drug) laws, something known to be anticonstitutional in the
US since the start. So my first feeling on that paper: crap.
Bruno
On 28 Aug 2012, at 15:09, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
Finally we have the whole story and truth:
Direct link to PDF in question:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDMQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Finfam.antville.org%2Ffiles%2Fpnas%2F&ei=A7o8UNPENsil0AWCh4CAAg&usg=AFQjCNEnTJj8p7H1m6w40c3PXKIOgjQgQA
Link to abstract:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/22/1206820109.abstract
Thank God Lewis Carroll, Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas; such jazz
greats as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Gene
Krupa; and the pattern continues right up to modern-day artists and
musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, the
Doobie Brothers, Bob Marley, Jefferson Airplane, Willie Nelson,
Buddy RIch, Country Joe & the Fish, Joe Walsh, David Carradine,
David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lola Falana, Hunter S. Thompson, Peter Tosh,
the Grateful Dead, Cypress Hill, Sinead O'Connor, Black Crowes, etc.
Of course, smoking marijuana only enhances creativity for some and
not for others. But so glad to have proof, that they all had to pay
for their sins in terms of neuropsychological decline.
It makes you dumb. Science has spoken. Dumb, lazy pot smokers under-
performing in IQ-Tests. Nothing beats long-term evidence and a
sample size of 1000.
:) Good science.
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