• troed@fedia.io
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    6 days ago

    the researchers note that the sister raised in the US had suffered three previous concussions

    the twin raised in Korea described growing up in a loving and harmonious family home, the adopted sister reported a harsher upbringing, colored by regular conflict and the divorce of her adoptive parents

    It does seem as if there would be explanations for the unusual difference.

    https://www.iflscience.com/identical-twins-raised-in-the-us-and-korea-display-surprising-iq-variations-71357

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      That’s kind of an understatement. Three traumatic brain injuries is not exactly something that can be ignored when discussing differences in mental faculties.

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        5 days ago

        It can be ignored if your only priority is dunking on America. I feel sorry for this young person being made into the poster child for everyone who would like to take America down a peg. Even the concussions will somehow get attributed to “the way things are there.”

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          It’s invalidated because multiple concussions would probably damage the brain and reasonably lower IQ. Also, the potential abuse that was hinted at would of course potentially affect IQ as well. It’s agenda-driven because it trivializes all of the above in order to push what seems to be an anti-USA agenda.