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Correlation is not causation, but most factors say yes. Moreover, the brain health of families is not generally a consideration in school systems. If kids are u
by robg 8y ago
Correlation is not causation, but most factors say yes. Moreover, the brain health of families is not generally a consideration in school systems. If kids are under toxic stress and not sleeping enough to recover, their brains won't develop to their full potential. That science is well-understood from animal models and glimpsed in human neuroimaging studies.
- ksk 8y ago>Moreover, the brain health of families is not generally a consideration in school systems Has anyone succeeded in making it a consideration and shown results? >If kids are under toxic stress and not sleeping enough to recover, their brains won't develop to their full potential. That begs more questions. Which child is using their brains to its full potential? What does 'full' mean here anyway? and how far away from 'full' are we talking about. >That science is well-understood from animal models and glimpsed in human neuroimaging studies. Could you elaborate?
- KaoruAoiShiho 8y ago*raises
- cjsawyer 8y agoGoogled it and they are not interchangeable. +1 for learning something
- heymijo 8y ago"If kids are under toxic stress and not sleeping enough to recover, their brains won't develop to their full potential. That science is well-understood from animal models and glimpsed in human neuroimaging studies." I'm in education. I'd like to learn more about these statements. Can you recommend what/where I should search?
- lr4444lr 8y ago"Toxic stress" in childhood isn't a pre-ordained result of, nor should it even have to correlate with, being poor.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoPoverty and limited financial resources aren't really the same thing. I get what you are saying, but it is something I have thought about a whole, whole lot. It's a distinction we don't make clear enough. We talk as if poverty is just about a low income. It's really not. Let's posit two scenarios: 1. There are people with low incomes whose lives work reasonably well. 2. There are people whose lives don't work and one of the results of their lives not working is a low income. I think poverty is really that second item, not that first. I think we conflate low income and poverty too much. There were lives that worked well and lives that lacked critical elements long before modern money made it convenient to assign a dollar value to our idea of what constituted poverty. In so assigning a dollar value, we risk boiling down a whole lot of qualities to a single number that doesn't necessary effectively capture what is going on.
- lr4444lr 8y agoIn so assigning a dollar value, we risk boiling down a whole lot of qualities to a single number that doesn't necessary effectively capture what is going on. I agree completely. Obviously the evidence is compelling in cases where, for instance, the parents so destitute that they cannot afford proper nutrition for an infant during critical periods of neural development. This article conflates things like that with kids who are stranded for a few hours at the bus depot because their mother couldn't leave work early to pick them up after taking the wrong bus home. That's ridiculous.
- robg 8y agoWhere did I say that?
- lr4444lr 8y agoYou're presumably answering the question posed by the post's title saying "yes", i.e., that it is causative, which would imply correlation. Why was that not a fair inference to draw?