Poor people make bad decisions?
How about "bad decisions lead to poverty"?
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Keep downvoting me all you want.
I feel my point is valid.
The abstract you point to does include the methods.
You're welcome to disagree (and to support your disagreement with arguments), but I note that you are merely expressing personal beliefs and do not provide evidence to support those beliefs.
Also:
> I can't disagree with "the poor don't think right so we need to dumb things down for them" conclusion.
This is not actually the conclusion they make, and you are editorializing here; it's about reducing cognitive load. For example, shortening an exam that is too long (i.e. can't reasonably be completed in the allotted time) also reduces cognitive load, but not necessarily because the students taking that exam "don't think right" and it doesn't mean that the exam is "dumbed down".
The underlying problem is that for poor people, time becomes a substitute currency; you do things yourself that you cannot afford to buy or go into extra effort to reduce your expenses. But your cognitive resources to engage in such expense-optimizing behavior may also be finite, well before you run out of time, which in turn affects how much cognitive resources you have available for work, learning, etc.
I'm not so much editorializing but translating to common speech.
I stand by it. That's pretty much what they were saying.
A specific example that the paper gives is filling out long forms; if you can replace a long form with a shorter one, that is a reduction in cognitive load and bureaucracy, but it is not "dumbing down" anything.
Some statistician point out these guys are cherry picking.
* Of the two measures of cognitive functioning in Mani et al.’s studies, only the Raven’s scores are fairly symmetrically distributed. We therefore submitted these data to linear regressions involving family income (mean-centered to facilitate interpretation) and an interaction between income and the type of scenario ... In none of the three core experiments (1, 3, and 4) was the interaction significant *
The stronger cognitive impediment experienced by the poor could merely be the result of an inappropriate statistical test and an overly easy cognitive control measure.
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Without those a person in a meritocracy where the poor "deserve" to be without ... that person will spend money on things that make them think they are living better not regarding what make sense to someone comfortable.
But I guess maybe you have never been homeless. Or without food or a place to shit.
Society can either pull back those that achieve (to level the playing field) or there will be winners and losers. However, there are still welfare programs and taxation to offset those at the lower end (at least in some parts of the world).
However, the current system is imbalanced with the rich getting richer. As the rich get richer, Everyone else gets poorer. Taxation was "meant" to level that playing field, but tax havens and vested interest by politicians to give tax breaks to the wealthy have allowed the horse to bolt.
You sound young? When you've seen some life, you just might change your view?
'You have no idea how strong the pull to feel worthwhile is. It’s more basic than food.'
I doubt anyone starts out their day looking to be a failure.