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Sounds like when our media report schools are improving. When you look at actual numbers (PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS and such) you instead see that what's happened is the rate of decline has slowed a little.

One thing they should have looked at is if it's first child or not, and age of mother, and origin of mother. Since the uptick is in the big cities, it's fully possible that most of it comes from mothers of non-skiing origin.

Another thing would be cross-checking and correlating with vaccination/booster-numbers for the specific women in question, but I guess one needs researcher-clearance to be able to do that. And since anyone with that status/access probably know what they might find, it's not being done for all the wrong reasons.

Sorry, not going to change your mine. Love the typo.

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Yep, and now legacy media is bringing out the big guns (Erna Solberg) in celebration while, at the same time, they bury the modRNA poison/death juice period.

All the things you mention about the mother's age at first birth (in Norway it's around 32) are true, as are the issues about 'no-skiing' groups.

You write: 'since anyone with that status/access probably know what they might find, it's not being done for all the wrong reasons'.

That's a fitting epitaph for the West's headstone.

(P.S.: I kept the original typo--lol!)

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