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New brain science shows poor kids have smaller brains than affluent kids
Washington Post ^
| April 15, 2015
| Lyndsey Layton
Posted on 04/16/2015 5:12:57 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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It is not the role of the government to equalize results, whether they are incomes or the test scores of children of different classes and races.
To: reaganaut1
What about the Duke brothers in “Trading Places”, lol? Seems a lot of rich kids like Obama and Hillary and Warren, so brain size difference is not so much of an issue as compared to how it is actually used.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:17:15 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
To: reaganaut1
People who have less ability and marry people with less ability have children who, on balance, on average, have less ability, Imagine that. Stupid people have stupid kids!
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:19:53 AM PDT
by
petercooper
("How To Destroy The Country In 6 Short Years" by Barack Obama & the Democrats)
To: reaganaut1
So what they're saying is that these guys...
and their children are very wealthy?
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:20:19 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: reaganaut1
The author seems to think that wealth causes the brain to be larger.
I believe the truth is a larger brain leads to wealth/prosperity.
People with larger brains tend to be more successful. A larger brain is something you are born with (genetics), not something that the government can give you "Executive Action" or passing a series of utopian laws ("War on Poverty," "Affirmative Action," etc.)
Just as Liberals have only recently discovered that there are differences between men and women, they may someday discover that there are differences between the races.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:20:59 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
(Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
To: Jack Hydrazine
And these guys?
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:21:13 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: reaganaut1
How long before #brainprivilege becomes a thing?
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:26:41 AM PDT
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
To: reaganaut1
It’s not hard. Affluent people value education, they expose their kids to reading at an earlier age.
Enter a culture where teens breed with multiple baby daddies and the children are essentially left to fend for themselves.
A brain that gets a workout develops to a greater degree than that of a feral kid.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:27:16 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
To: reaganaut1
Mandatory lobotomy program for brain tissue redistribution to follow.
To: reaganaut1
Government operatives controlled by “The 1%” are sneaking in to the homes of poor people at night and harvesting brain matter from their children.
Either that or their harvesting it from them in the public schools.
It’s the only possible explanation...
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:27:32 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: reaganaut1
back to phrenetics (or however it’s spelled) we go!
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:28:03 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: IllumiNaughtyByNature
#checkyourbrainatthedoor
Oh, wait, the democrats are already using that one...
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:28:35 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
To: reaganaut1
Maybe they’re born that way...like Gays.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:30:38 AM PDT
by
AdaGray
To: Gamecock
In addition to your comment, add that carbonated drinks in baby bottles and potato chips for dinner don’t grow healthy cells either.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:31:51 AM PDT
by
jch10
(Obama, the first Muslim in Chief.)
To: reaganaut1
To show how idiotic the premise is here: just look no further than the Kennedy clan.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:32:14 AM PDT
by
jettester
(I got paid to break 'em - not fly 'em)
To: Jack Hydrazine
And these guys GUYS???? All woman actors.
The garbanzo brain people of Talos IV.
BOOOOOP.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:33:46 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: OttawaFreeper
Well, this is the point of "The Bell Curve" by Murray and Hernstein. They were right after all.
I read another study on families---I think by Kay Hymowicz, but I could be mistaken on the author---that said that poorer mothers, even "good ones," will interact with a kid differently than more educated mothers (though not necessarily more affluent). For ex., a poorer mother who even reads to her kid will read the word "dog" and the kid will repeat "dog." And that is the end of it, where as more educated mothers will say, "And what sound does the dog make? And what sound does the cat make?" and start a whole learning conversation.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:33:51 AM PDT
by
LS
('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:36:28 AM PDT
by
Cooter
(Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. - J. Goldberg)
To: reaganaut1
Children of liberals forced to be vegans typically have brain defects as a result.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:37:19 AM PDT
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: reaganaut1
Sounds to me like they needed to “normalize” for some other factors.
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posted on
04/16/2015 5:38:00 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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