🧵 IQ math
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:51:27 UTC No. 16620980
If I donate a couple hundred dollars to charity to iodize salt for people in developing countries will I have "given away" a few hundred extra IQ points in total?
>Estimates for the cost to give access to adequately iodized salt for one person are in the range of $0.05-$0.10 per year.
>Based on the available experimental evidence, we estimate that iodine supplementation of mild-to-moderately deficient children increases their IQ by approximately three points.Givewell also suggests that this effect is likely to be even greater where iodine deficiency is more severe, but there is not yet sufficient evidence to be certain of this. Similarly, GiveWell reports that two meta-analyses (Angermayr and Clar 2004 and Taylor et al 2013) identified 6 RCTs evaluating the effect of iodine supplementation of children on their mental function, and generally found significant positive effects. This increase in mental function is likely to have positive effects on the children’s life outcomes.
30 years of iodine supplementation for one person is no more than 3$. That's there entire childhood and then some.
3$ on average gives someone else 3 IQ points
So if I donate 400$ I've given away 400 IQ points?
But those numbers might be somewhat generous as not everyone who receives iodized salt will have been significantly defecient in iodine so not everyone who receives idolized salt will receive a few extra IQ points
Maybe I should multiply it by three or by ten so it's 1200$ for 120 IQ points or 600$ for 200 IQ points. Not sure how to figure that part out but I just started reading research on them
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Mar 2025 17:56:10 UTC No. 16620983
>>16620980
Let nature do its thing, let them kill each other, let them starve until only 1% remains.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Mar 2025 18:04:52 UTC No. 16620990
>>16620983
No that's not a good idea
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:04:18 UTC No. 16621205
>>16620983
The most humane+pragmatic thing the west can do is to eliminate the most atrocious causes of diseases and death (e.g., parasites) and avoid messing with the biggest bottlenecks to population growth. Also condoms but then catholics seethe.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:10:10 UTC No. 16621209
>>16620980
Sea salt is more expensive now that's all
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:05:48 UTC No. 16621247
>>16621209
Sea salt doesn't have iodine
>>16621205
That would include iodized salt right?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:04:02 UTC No. 16621376
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Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:57:09 UTC No. 16621469
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Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:40:59 UTC No. 16622286
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Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 04:46:11 UTC No. 16624128
>>16620980
>be 3rd world leader
>notice the west sends a bunch of free money/resources if your people are suffering
>engineer a permanent neglected class into the social structure so the money can keep flowing
How will you be able to tell if they aren't just taking your money/salt and pretending to administer it properly?
Even if you aren't worried about that now, the extra IQ boost you are providing will allow them to find this strategy on their own.
🗑️ Anonymous at Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:52:59 UTC No. 16624417
>>16624128
It's still good karma