藥罐子生笨子 疾病減弱你的智商
Genetics and education are often cited as the biggest influences on intelligence, but a new study claims that disease has far more sway on IQ than either of these。
據英國《每日郵報》9月7日報道，人們通常認爲基因和受教育程度對人的智力影響最大，但一項新的研究表明，疾病對人智商的影響遠遠超過這兩者。
Scientists from the University of New Mexico analyzed IQs across the United States and declared that exposure to infectious disease had a huge effect on brain power。
美國新墨西哥大學的科學家們通過分析美國人的智商，得出了這個結論：傳染性疾病可對人類腦力產生巨大影響。
They say the reason for this is that humans – and especially children – devote a great deal of energy running their brains. If a disease crops up that diverts that energy, then intelligence inevitably suffers。
科學家稱得出這個結論的原因是，人類，特別是兒童總是把大量能量投入到大腦運轉上。如果疾病突發，它就會轉移這種(運轉大腦的)能量，那麼智力必然就會受到損傷。
Writing in Scientific American, researcher Christopher Eppig said: "Infectious disease is a factor that may rob large amounts of energy away from a developing brain. The evidence suggests that infectious disease is a primary cause of the global variation in human intelligence."
研究員克里斯托弗·埃皮格在《科學美國人》上發表文章說：“傳染病是奪取處於發育階段的大腦能量的一個因素。有證據表明，傳染病是致使人類智力整體發生變化的決定性因素。”
Mr. Eppig said: "The states with the five lowest averages IQ all have higher levels of infectious disease than the states with the five highest averages IQ."
埃皮格先生說：“與平均智商水平最高的五個州相比，智商水平最低的五個洲都存在較嚴重的傳染性疾病。”
Eppig hopes his hypothesis will allow people wishing to help raise IQs around the globe to do so more efficiently。
埃皮格希望他的推斷能更有效的幫助那些想提高智商的人。
