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I wonder if this is just confusing statistics or if its actually unfairness. Ex: if 0.04125 (33/800) people are "high income bracket" then no foul. People grow
by maerF0x0 12y ago
I wonder if this is just confusing statistics or if its actually unfairness.
Ex: if 0.04125 (33/800) people are "high income bracket" then no foul. People growing up in low income families have the same chance of getting rich as the average of the populace.
- rgbrenner 12y agoThe answer to your question is here: http://hub.jhu.edu/2014/06/02/karl-alexander-long-shadow-research http://hub.jhu.edu/2014/06/02/karl-alexander-long-shadow-res... Only 33 children moved from birth families in the low-income bracket to the high-income bracket as young adults; if family had no bearing on children's mobility prospects, almost 70 would be expected. And of those who started out well off, only 19 dropped to the low-income bracket, a fourth of the number expected. He compares some of the other stats too.
- bane 12y agoAny ideas on how they arrived at the expected numbers?
- rgbrenner 12y agoYour guess is as good as mine.. but I imagine it's covered in the publication: https://www.russellsage.org/publications/long-shadow https://www.russellsage.org/publications/long-shadow Tables/data from it is available: https://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/Alexander_TablesFigures.pdf https://www.russellsage.org/sites/all/files/Alexander_Tables... Edit: Google books: http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1610448235 http://books.google.com/books?isbn=1610448235
- judk 12y ago2x "life difficulty multiplier" is way lower that I would have guessed for someone born into poverty.