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> There is a general correlation between a wide > range of malignancies, including lower > educational attainment and lower life expectancy Or you could
by m0zg 8y ago
> There is a general correlation between a wide
> range of malignancies, including lower
> educational attainment and lower life expectancy
Or you could draw the arrow of causality slightly differently and say that life kind of sucks for people who didn't listen to the teacher in high school and didn't do their homework. Which, at least in my case, is supported by reams of evidence. It wasn't because they were poor (I grew up in the USSR, so everyone was poor), it was because they didn't give a shit.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoThis isn’t a binary. I cared quite a bit in high school but my outcomes are quite a bit worse than many of my peers, a lot of whom didn’t.
- m0zg 8y agoOf course, it's a probability distribution, as just about anything else in life. But finishing high school is a predictor of good health, long lifespan, and a host of other things: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2099272/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2099272/ Another powerful predictor is having both parents, and forming a family.