Comment Bad science reporting strikes again (Score 1) 169
The study itself shows basically no result whatsoever, but then claims that it does, and bad science reporting is running with it regardless of the actual evidence. Here's a detailed analysis explaining why this study and its data tells us nothing: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/against-that-poverty-and-infant-eegs
If you don't want to open a link, here's one key point: "If you test 20 different things and get one positive result, that doesn’t mean there’s a real effect, it means you kept doing tests until one of them randomly came out positive because of noise." - Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/882/