Disabled people have long - known that non-health
related factors like skills, confidence, motivation and qualifications are much stronger indicators
of employment success, but the test considers
none of these things.
None of them wants to derail that gravy train, and all fear that accepting grants to study natural
factors or climate cycles would imperil funding from sources that have ideological, political or crony corporatist reasons for making grants tied to manmade warming, renewable energy and
related topics.
These small observed differences in IQ and achievement have been attributed to nutritional and social determinants
of breastfeeding, but
none of these studies have partialled out the genetic and socioenvironmental
factors related to maternal IQ from the nutritional benefits
of breastfeeding.
(I)
Factors related to socioeconomic status: mother's (< 25, 25 — 29, 30 — 34, 35 +) and father's (< 30, 30 — 34, 35 +) age in years at birth
of child; mother's and father's education at 9 months (National Vocational Qualification equivalent level 4 — 5 = university degree or equivalent, 3 = A levels or equivalent, 2 = grade C or higher in at least 4 General Certificate
of Secondary Education qualifications at the end
of compulsory schooling at age 16, 0 — 1 = less than this); occupational socioeconomic status at exposure, based on the last - known job
of father or mother, whichever was higher (3 - class National Statistics Socio - economic Classification 1 = managerial / administrative / professional, 2 = intermediate, 3 = routine / manual); duration
of breast - feeding (never, < 4 months, 4 + months); number
of siblings
of child in household at 9 months (
none, 1, 2 +).