Air Pollution

  • Great post showing how air pollution is detrimental to intelligence.
  • Chess players make more mistakes on polluted days: We find that an increase of 10 µg/m³ raises the probability of making an error by 1.5 percentage points, and increases the magnitude of the errors by 9.4%.
  • World Bank air pollution data can be found here.
  • Interestingly pollution has been declining, but 45% of the global population is still exposed to levels above those recommended by WHO.
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