Thanks for sharing more info about this really important topic - our scientists in Europe are prohibited from studying this topics so, big respect my guy! 🤝💯
I'm told that brain fog is a symptom of CPTSD: https://youtu.be/fs3YvCGCT7U?si=c4tTg-4S1ktiBrmn I would not be surprised if many of these people are traumatized and would be more intelligent if they received effective psychotherapy.
On the other hand, I am not prepared to support claims that the brain fog - CPTSD connection is supported by statistically valid research, that CPTSD really exists, or that effective psychotherapy really exists. This claim is a guess hopefully slightly better than the average YouTube comment.
The norms of the matrix reasoning in most studies are not significantly different between 16 years old and adulthood, in many studies the scores of this test decrease from 20 years old (see the changes of Wechsler subtests by age)
To better prove this issue, i can refer to an independent example of this study that was conducted on Iranian refugees and the authors themselves have mentioned it:
"After completing our studies and manuscript, a reader of our research from Iran alerted
us to an unpublished study that included a larger Iranian refugee study in Germany (Pinto
and Kühnel, 2020). The average IQ level (using figural intelligence tests with German norms) is IQ
100 (Pinto and Kühnel, 2020, p. 17)."
It seems that in that sample, the average IQ of Iranian refugees with german adult norms was 100 and slightly higher than the present study(95-96), although the authors point out that the 5 points difference between their study and the other study was probably the result of more selective participants.
If we act in your way, then the difference between the two studies will be large(2/3 SD) and unusual, so i think 90 is accurate and it is unnecessary to reduce 85 and It is unlikely that the scores were inflated due to the age norm.
Measured tone, explanation of research & analysis methods. Adult statistical considerations. Calm in the face of <pick a descriptor for current cultural rot>.
But that's not why i just became a Paid Subscriber.
I did that because of one sentence at the end of this post (and the attached story.) Go find it. Click on it.
I guess one might say I became a subscriber due to "....recent events..."
I agree with you, but after having read the 5-page comment, it seems to me their critique misses the point, which is the average refugee IQ from a fairly large sample (n ~ 500) is much lower than the average German IQ.
Later in the comment, they mention that such an observation isn’t wrong but so obvious as to be useless. I’m not sure that’s the case.
They also hid the fact that they did it this way in the Supplementary Material. Three years of peer review and nobody told them to put the most controversial part of the paper in the main text?
These are non-Germans living in the German soil.
Thanks for sharing more info about this really important topic - our scientists in Europe are prohibited from studying this topics so, big respect my guy! 🤝💯
I'm told that brain fog is a symptom of CPTSD: https://youtu.be/fs3YvCGCT7U?si=c4tTg-4S1ktiBrmn I would not be surprised if many of these people are traumatized and would be more intelligent if they received effective psychotherapy.
On the other hand, I am not prepared to support claims that the brain fog - CPTSD connection is supported by statistically valid research, that CPTSD really exists, or that effective psychotherapy really exists. This claim is a guess hopefully slightly better than the average YouTube comment.
The norms of the matrix reasoning in most studies are not significantly different between 16 years old and adulthood, in many studies the scores of this test decrease from 20 years old (see the changes of Wechsler subtests by age)
To better prove this issue, i can refer to an independent example of this study that was conducted on Iranian refugees and the authors themselves have mentioned it:
"After completing our studies and manuscript, a reader of our research from Iran alerted
us to an unpublished study that included a larger Iranian refugee study in Germany (Pinto
and Kühnel, 2020). The average IQ level (using figural intelligence tests with German norms) is IQ
100 (Pinto and Kühnel, 2020, p. 17)."
It seems that in that sample, the average IQ of Iranian refugees with german adult norms was 100 and slightly higher than the present study(95-96), although the authors point out that the 5 points difference between their study and the other study was probably the result of more selective participants.
If we act in your way, then the difference between the two studies will be large(2/3 SD) and unusual, so i think 90 is accurate and it is unnecessary to reduce 85 and It is unlikely that the scores were inflated due to the age norm.
Great article as always.
Measured tone, explanation of research & analysis methods. Adult statistical considerations. Calm in the face of <pick a descriptor for current cultural rot>.
But that's not why i just became a Paid Subscriber.
I did that because of one sentence at the end of this post (and the attached story.) Go find it. Click on it.
I guess one might say I became a subscriber due to "....recent events..."
This DOI is not supported by doi.org, and the alternative link likewise refuses to open.
That said, from the quoted parts... r=0.7? On samples of such parts? I call BS.
I agree with you, but after having read the 5-page comment, it seems to me their critique misses the point, which is the average refugee IQ from a fairly large sample (n ~ 500) is much lower than the average German IQ.
Later in the comment, they mention that such an observation isn’t wrong but so obvious as to be useless. I’m not sure that’s the case.
They also hid the fact that they did it this way in the Supplementary Material. Three years of peer review and nobody told them to put the most controversial part of the paper in the main text?
What are you quoting?
https://journalofcontroversialideas.org/download/article/4/2/284/pdf
Is this response cope?