Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time

Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by nmeofthestate on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:25PM (#11847954)

Preemies are premature babies, apparently.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by virgil_disgr4ce on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:36PM (#11848571)

It's a very common abbreviation.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by DanBC on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:39PM (#11848610)

...in the US.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by taneq on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @02:41AM (#11852809)

Preemie or premmie is used in Australia too.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by grub5000 on Monday June 06, 2016 @03:10PM (#11849422)

UK here, pretty sure everyone in the country knows this one. Think there was a memo...

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by DanBC on Monday June 06, 2016 @05:05PM (#11850373)

Single mention on BBC.co.uk (and that's from an American).

There's 72 mentions on the Guardian website, except when you go to the actual stories to search most of them don't use the preemie word, and search was helpfully subbing a word.

There are 2 hits on the Independant.co.uk website.

It's just not very common over here.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by SixSigma on Monday June 06, 2016 @04:01PM (#11849842)

I was prem, and my step kid was prem, I spent a month living in the special care unit with her at Sheffield hospital and I've never heard it.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by twic on Monday June 06, 2016 @03:49PM (#11849750)

In the UK, the only person i've heard use it was an American.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by nmeofthestate on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:52PM (#11855763)

> It's a very common abbreviation.

...which I have never in my entire life heard before, or seen written down.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by AstralStorm on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:27PM (#11847971)

That must be some kind of insular slang.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by codehusker on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:41PM (#11848083)

Anecdotal, but I believe it's very common, nearly ubiquitous, among medical professionals and people who have interacted with preemies.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by lanna on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:51PM (#11848167)

Yes, it is, at least here in Canada. Source: father of a preemie, had never heard the term before.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by khedoros on Monday June 06, 2016 @01:15PM (#11848391)

In the U.S., as well. I knew the term before my son was born, but honestly, I'm not sure where from.

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Re:Proposed connection between intelligence and gestation time by mac01021 on Monday June 06, 2016 @05:38PM (#11850625)

At hospitals in northeastern USA too.

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