Much of the compressed timeline was just about organising the research more quickly, not changing the design of the trials. But, yes, there was an initial shorter follow-up to track effects in some t… (View Post)

Sure, there are lots of problems with IQ as a measure, and whatever IQ measures, it clearly isn’t everything that matters. Levels of both income and wealth are also clearly linked to things such as “… (View Post)

Estimates of the heritability of IQ are about 50%, which I wouldn’t call “extremely”. IQ has a correlation with income of about 0.3-0.4, so it explains about 10-15% of variation in income. The correl… (View Post)

So you withdraw your earlier comment that the only evidence involves modelling counterfactuals? (View Post)

It’s not a question of faith. It’s a question of science. Multiple studies on hundreds of thousands of people have shown the vaccines’ effectiveness. They’ve saved over 15 million lives. Sandpit talk… (View Post)