I rather think the brains of rich kids are the ones that are “different.”
Hey, howzabout this? Their socio-economic condition is not the cause of this but they are in their socio-economic condition because of this. A single mother with no education and work ethic is likely to raise stupid kids with no discipline.
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That seems to be somewhat problematic, nicht wahr?
Does the article account for the fact that perhaps some of the low-income kids have these prefrontal abnormalities because of their mom’s substance abuse during pregnancy?
In other words, those who possess cognition have cognitive differences from those who don’t.
I’d put this discovery right up there with the guy who figured out the moon got larger then the moon got smaller, and it seemed to repeat every thirty days.
Are they suggesting low-income children (presumably their talking about this country) don’t get enough nutrition? It’s more likely they’ve inherited their parents intelligence...
My guess would be that poor people, on balance, are at the low end of the intelligence scale.
It’s really not that difficult to hold down a good job in this country.
Good grief. I came from a poor family and I’m smart. At least I think so! Our parents and grandparents weren’t all born into middle class homes and they did very well for themselves. Some of these studies are so ridiculous and this is just one of them.
There are probably many variables other than income here. Many of these kids may be from immigrant families with poor English skills, others may be from native born families that are only marginally literate, most of them probably suffer from non-existent parenting in mother-headed households, etc. In other words, they suffer from cultural deprivation, particularly in the area of language (which obviously affects one’s ability to reason). Poverty in itself is not the cause.
I’m not defending poverty, btw. Being poor certainly makes everything harder. But it’s not the cause of their wretched cognitive development.
horse hockey. What the he!! does RESEMBLE mean?
More then likley they were raised ‘Rat rather then poor....
Personally, I think the University of Berkeley researchers have the cart before the horse... Or in other words, the “effect” is the cause.
Did they do IQ tests on both groups of children at the same time?
I thought we fixed this by getting rid of all the lead paint and resulting paint chips the poor kids were munching on?
Pure BS from Socialists. You can’t associate an effect with only only one cause when multiple causes of the effect are possible in a subject. Of course the stat. guys will disagree.
How many were FLK’s (funny looking kids without an obvious cause) as we used to say before it became politically incorrect.
Hmmmm..., so money buys higher IQs....
I’m sort of tired to hearing so much propaganda such as this. I believe in giving to the poor. However, once back in the Rodney King days or rioting, the news media reported that “they are rioting in the ghettos because they’re hungry”. Rush commented at that time that the video he was seeing of the rioters showed rather that the looters and rioters were fat, muscular and well fed, probably on food stamps. - I remember a teacher commenting that the black girls at her school would sit down and eat a jumbo sized bag of potato chips at one sitting, while the so-called “rich” kids would eat a small bag of chips. Education in nutrition may well be the most needed commodity rather than more money to buy junk foods. However, that goes without saying that the kids would have to take any nutritional education to heart instead of rebelling if they didn’t get pizza every night. (I realize this is not PC. The truth hardly ever is.)
Equality of opportunity is no guarantee of equality of outcome. Those who offer the opportunity have no control over what you bring to the table nor how much effort you make to succeed.
Oooh, I hear the crinkling of a toilet paper hat as we speak.