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The poor often behave in less capable ways, which can further perpetuate poverty. We hypothesize that poverty directly impedes cognitive function and present two studies that test this hypothesis. First, we experimentally induced thoughts about finances and found that this reduces cognitive performance among poor but not in well-off participants. Second, we examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich. This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort. Nor can it be explained with stress: Although farmers do show more stress before harvest, that does not account for diminished cognitive performance. Instead, it appears that poverty itself reduces cognitive capacity. We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks. These data provide a previously unexamined perspective and help explain a spectrum of behaviors among the poor. We discuss some implications for poverty policy.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/976
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 06 2018, @04:57AM (10 children)
There is a time and a place, Mr. Not-actually-Donald-Trump. This is not that time. This is not that place. I've seen too many friends suffer and die, or worse, because of what poverty did to them, and may narrowly have escaped the same fate myself, *did* narrowly escape it several years ago. Just...shut up. This isn't even so bad it's good funny any more.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by VLM on Tuesday November 06 2018, @12:54PM (2 children)
If you're homeless, and jealous that I have a house, you will certainly feel better trash talking my home ownership then burning my house down. However, not only would you still be homeless, but now there's two homeless people instead of one.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday November 06 2018, @03:01PM
Misery loves company.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 06 2018, @03:59PM
I truly hope you end up homeless. You have no understanding of what those people face. I *was* homeless, thankfully only for a brief period, in 2010 when my ex went batshit. And you know what? I didn't begrudge people who had homes their homes. My every thought was on 1) survival and 2) getting a place to live again.
The fact that you automatically assume homeless people hate those better off than them says far, far more about you than them. None of it complementary. Your kind, for some reason, think every other human on the planet is the same sort of selfish, hateful moral no-o, and project your own failings onto them. And really, if the best you have is "I may be shit but so is everyone else," you have fallen very, very low.
Then again, in this very thread you basically went "DA JOOZ WANT EVERYONE POOR HURR HURR HURR" so I'm not surprised with you. Just, as always, disappointed.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @07:21PM (6 children)
Just...shut up.
NO! You, just... tune out! You have no right to shut anybody up, no matter how offensive you find them. Just turn off your damn TV. If you gotta a problem with Trump, then look to his followers, not him. They are the foot soldiers, remember?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @07:38PM (5 children)
????
You're taking this as some first amendment attack?
crazy bastards round'ere
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:46PM (4 children)
Yeah, you don't tell people to shut up (unless the decibel level is excessive), you turn your back. That is the only proper response to any speech that offends you. I mean, there's always heckling, which can be funny...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @10:32PM (3 children)
Nope, sometimes it is important for pepple to see that there is significant pushback against crap ideas. Mr. Trumptroll pushes Trump's ideas on here and they should be called out for the garbage they are.
Ill pay attention to your whining once someone actually does something to make you/trumptroll shut up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @11:17PM (2 children)
You can push all you want as long as you don't block others who want to listen from hearing/reading. And telling a person to shut up only makes him, rightfully I will add, push back harder against any attempted silencing. That is not the kind of opposition to your "trumpism" I would ever support. That is a crap idea that begs for pushback, which is woefully inadequate. But hey, you're just playing the role of the fascist censor, the antagonist in this movie. Very revealing. Later tonight, we'll see how well your tactics work, in motivating the other side, because it sure worked for me when I voted :-)
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:28AM (1 child)
You're making one fundamental mistake here: the guy's signal to noise ratio is in the shitter. It's actually negative, as in, you become less well-informed simply by reading his posts. I don't mind disagreeing with people, but this shit's a waste of electrons.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @03:57PM
Doesn't matter. Tune out! If anybody wants to follow, that is their right. If they are a majority, then that's the way the cookie crumbles. You just have to sell a better mouse trap.