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Or, perhaps, people who have health issues make less money? Correlation is not causation.
by limaoscarjuliet 11y ago
Or, perhaps, people who have health issues make less money?
Correlation is not causation.
- alkonaut 11y agoWhen it goes both ways it can be called a "spiral" or "trap". Poverty does that on a wide range of issues.
- ikeboy 11y agoOr something else contributes to both income and health (intelligence seems like a good candidate, there's a similar multi year life expectancy difference between the high and low ends). I wonder how much simply controlling for parents' money and health would make this go away, although that doesn't separate effects from monetary inheritance.
- ikeboy 11y agoAlthough poverty might affect intelligence (I'm not sure the current state of research. Definitely there's a correlation, but I don't know whether genetics fully explains it or whether we can point a causal arrow from poverty to lower IQ.)
- gadders 11y agoCommon sense would appear to suggest that, on the whole, lower IQ could be a cause for poverty.
- ikeboy 11y agoSure, but some have suggested the reverse as well.
- emodendroket 11y agoWhy do we need to study anything at all when we can just rely on our self-serving intuitions?
- gadders 11y agoSo you think having an IQ below 100 wouldn't hamper you in the job market?
- emodendroket 11y agoDepends on the work; not all work requires you to be a genius. But simply saying it's "obvious" that that must be one of the prime drivers of poverty strikes me as 1) not that obvious at all 2) self-serving
- dschiptsov 11y agoPeople with weak immune system, autoimmune diseases, bad habits related disorders (almost everything, including depressions) etc, would be outperformed by top achievers (outliers), but they would be in the "average" region. It is the same model as IQ, where wast majority are average.