Puberty blockers given to children may lower their IQs

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[–]LtGreenCo 12 insightful - 4 fun12 insightful - 3 fun13 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I want them to test the parents.

"To our surprise we also tested the IQs of the parents and found a similar correlation to low IQ despite the parents never having taken puberty blockers. Very strange indeed."

[–]ClassroomPast6178 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think you’d probably find high-IQ parents with a submissive father and dominant, cluster-B, Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy mother.

I say High IQ because this does seem to be most prevalent amongst the upper middle classes and I suspect high IQ people are more often more likely to be susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect, members of Facebook groups, be more “progressive” and want to show off their LGBTQ child.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

How are you defining high IQ? As in firmly above average or actually high IQ as in 155+, ie the top centile? Because I'm in a couple of those facebooks and yes, most of the women there are well educated with professional careers or who could have had professional careers if they hadn't prioritised fulltime motherhood. But, realistically, it would be unlikely that much more than two in a hundred would actually have a high IQ (higher odds than 1% due to the fact that few, if any, members would have a below average IQ). Yes, the Dunning-Kruger effect is very clearly on display with relatively intelligent people parroting the most stupid shit like, but Michael Phelps has big hands!!!!, immediately blaming JKR when news broke of B Ghey's murder and lots and lots of anti-science body positivity nonsense. Lots and lots of what Stella O'Malley calls toxic empathy. She describes it as a huge issue for teens but I see it as an incredibly huge problem for swathes of Millenial and even late-gen X mothers.

I don't see much evidence of critical thinking in these groups. Now a huge part of that, is because it's pretty obvious that if you question the group think, you get fucked out. So I suspect/hope that there are at least some other women in these groups who are still in them in order to observe.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, maybe I shouldn’t have said “high iq” and instead said “above average”, I was thinking in line with what’s required for mediocre professional careers, but not genius high-flyers. Smart enough to do damage.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Basically the people involved aren't mentally retarded.

They are still retarded just metaphysically.