Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of death in 68 year follow-up

Re:Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of dea... by handelaar on Sunday February 25, 2018 @11:17AM (#16459579)

False. All participants were born and took their IQ tests a year before the very first elements of the NHS came into existence.

And health (and all other) outcomes are strongly affected in the UK by geography. On average you'll live in Sussex nearly a decade longer than in Cowdenbeath. In Glasgow as late as the mid-1980s the average male life expectancy was 58 years, and then Scotland had the shit kicked out of it, on purpose, for twelve years, by the 1979 Thatcher government. Cuts in healthcare were inflicted disproportionately-severely on places which did not vote for the Conservatives, and nowhere were they more severe than central Scotland and south Wales.

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Re:Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of dea... by robotresearcher on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:07PM (#16460241)

False? The subjects have lived >75% of their lives with national health. And the older you are the more you use health services. While it may be the least good in Scotland, it’s enormously better than being uninsured in the US where people are understandably reluctant to visit the doctor’s office at all.

Nothing you say contradicts the parent’s post. So ‘false’ is incorrect as well as obnoxious.

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