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1. In my opinion, I don’t believe that babies who leaned sign language as infants have a higher overall IQ. I believe this myth is not true because babies who learned sign language as infants may help them to having a better sense to communicate with other and self-esteem, but doesn’t mean that those babies higher overall IQ. To me, babies who leaned sigh language as infants don’t seem to have a higher overall IQ as people claims.
2. Based on the studies psychologists believe, that there are not enough reliable sources to support that babies have higher IQ when they learned sign language as infants. Based on the journal post in school library below (part 3), researchers provide statist data that 90% of article support that babies who learn sign language as infants have higher IQ were
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I don’t believe mentally ill people are dangerous. I believe this myth is not true because the people who are consider dangerous are those people commit to crime and to hurt other. I have been able to learn that mentally ill people are nice, they just desire help from other through the CSUB health center. Many people having mild mentally illness, it can easily to happens when we lost job, fail the test, divorce, and fear to do something etc. Those people who consider mentally ill people are dangerous are more dangerous because they are hurting other feeling.
2. In the journal, “An overview: Are mentally ill people are really more dangerous?” researchers provide a study sample, define and measurement of dangerousness, research that we misunderstand the word “dangerous”, and misinformation that mentally ill people are tend to be involved in criminal or violent acts.
3. David, Simon. “An Overview: Are Mentally Ill People Really More Dangerous?” Social Work, vol. 36, no. 2, Mar. 1991, pp. 174-180. EBSCO host,

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