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Poverty also reduces IQ by 13 points https://archive.is/bmj11 https://archive.is/bmj11
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Poverty also reduces IQ by 13 points https://archive.is/bmj11 https://archive.is/bmj11
- larnmar 7y agoHas this study been replicated? It seems a lot like one of those terrible “priming” studies that won’t. Statistics aside, the experimental methodology is terrible. You ask a bunch of people to think about being poor, or not, and that’s supposed to be a simulation of being poor or not?
- 9dl 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen... > The replication suggested that economic background, rather than willpower, explained the other half Yeah And 250k/y "poor" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/the-self-pity-of-the-harvard-poor/63755/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/the-sel... https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/in-defense-of-the-self-pitying-wealthy-poor/63777/ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/09/in-defe...