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I'm not a statistician (so I can't definitively say how you establish cause vs. correlation) but since you can a child's parents' economic status has a signific
by MikeTheGreat 6y ago
I'm not a statistician (so I can't definitively say how you establish cause vs. correlation) but since you can a child's parents' economic status has a significant impact on the child's academic performance [0], I'm going to say that education inequality is a consequence of wealth inequality
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[0] https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1083795 https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1083795. AFAIT this is from "Journal of Education and Practice", which is a peer-reviewed journal
- lotsofpulp 6y agoThey're intertwined. Many things in life you can't learn from textbooks, which you can from having friends who have parents who are doctors and lawyers and business owners. When they cluster together, by living near each other in higher priced homes and towns, and send all their kids to similar schools, you end up with an unequal education for the kids because while the teachers and the books can be the same, the learning environment as well as access to adults with better resources can't be made the same.
- xapata 6y agoStatistics lets us identify correlation. Science lets us infer cause.