I am of the opinion that recreational drugs should be the preserve of the retired folk. In fact in the USA with so many companies and the govt/military doing random testing you may as well wait until retirement. Richard
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > Even Binet, who invented the IQ-tests, insisted that it can be used only > to separate debility and sanity, not to measure small differences. The > paper is mute on the most difficult part to assess, like such a difference. > I am not sure such comparision must be itself compared with other "drug", > like making similar tests, assuminf they makes sense, which I doubt. How > evolve the IQ of people looking everyday at TV, and "sober" people, or > alcoholic? > To be sure I have not yet found the most typical error in statistics in > that field, so that paper might be less wrong than usual, but still not > very convincing, especially in the conclusion. The policy does not make > sense, especially that we are systematically dis-informed about the real > outcomes of basically all medication/drugs, and this will last as long as > people will accept the nonsensical prohibition (of food and drug) laws, > something known to be anticonstitutional in the US since the start. So my > first feeling on that paper: crap. > > Bruno > > On 28 Aug 2012, at 15:09, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: > > Finally we have the whole story and truth: > > Direct link to PDF in question: > > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CDMQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Finfam.antville.org%2Ffiles%2Fpnas%2F&ei=A7o8UNPENsil0AWCh4CAAg&usg=AFQjCNEnTJj8p7H1m6w40c3PXKIOgjQgQA > > Link to abstract: > > http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/08/22/1206820109.abstract > > Thank God Lewis Carroll, Victor Hugo and Alexander Dumas; such jazz greats > as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Gene Krupa; and the > pattern continues right up to modern-day artists and musicians such as the > Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Eagles, the Doobie Brothers, Bob Marley, > Jefferson Airplane, Willie Nelson, Buddy RIch, Country Joe & the Fish, Joe > Walsh, David Carradine, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lola Falana, Hunter S. > Thompson, Peter Tosh, the Grateful Dead, Cypress Hill, Sinead O'Connor, > Black Crowes, etc. > > Of course, smoking marijuana only enhances creativity for some and not for > others. But so glad to have proof, that they all had to pay for their sins > in terms of neuropsychological decline. > > It makes you dumb. Science has spoken. Dumb, lazy pot smokers > under-performing in IQ-Tests. Nothing beats long-term evidence and a sample > size of 1000. > > :) Good science. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > > http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
