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Air pollution causes ‘huge’ reduction in intelligence, study reveals
Air pollution causes a “huge” reduction in intelligence, according to new research, indicating that the damage to society of toxic air is far deeper than the well-known impacts on physical health. The research was conducted in China but is relevant across the world, with 95% of the global population breathing unsafe air. It found that high pollution levels led to significant drops in test scores in language and arithmetic, with the average impact equivalent to having lost a year of the person’s education.
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Correlation isn't causation, necessarily. Sometimes the cycle is more vicious than that. One could observe that the stupid allow pollution, closing a hangman's loop, and making these conclusions simply a corollary.