Topic: FAO: people who blame poor people for being poor

Anonymous A started this discussion 13 years ago #30,559

how does this peer reviewed journal article about seven studies make you feel?

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 40 minutes later[^] [v] #438,688

Pretty much proves poor people choose to be poor, doesn't it?

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 56 seconds later, 41 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #438,689

Of course. You can't get money any way else.

green joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 46 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #438,690

@previous (HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY)
Shut the Fuck up you twat

HaikerensGuide !dBGi/iH4eY replied with this 13 years ago, 11 minutes later, 58 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #438,692

@previous (green)
feck off

Meta !PARAdoxiHw joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 29 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #438,702

@OP
The abstract makes sense: someone who is ruthless and greedy would, all other things equal, likely make more money than an altruistic person

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #438,703

Well when you have a poor family you kind of become poor also. Because everyone wants money from you.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #438,704

@OP
Clearly you don't understand capitalism or market/mixed-market economies.

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 27 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #438,714

@previous (G)
Clearly.

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #438,750

In other related news...

Anonymous I joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 6 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #438,820

Based on that research, african americans should be the richest people in the world.

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 hours later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #438,895

@previous (I)
> mad as fuck

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 day later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #439,517

The authors almost certainly withheld studies that contradicted their hypothesis. The probability that seven studies with such small effect sizes would all reject the null hypothesis is only .02 (the standard threshold for publication bias is .1). It's also suspicious that the authors failed to cite the wealth of evidence that antisocial behaviour correlates negatively with socioeconomic status.

And considering that the studies were of Bay Area residents, Berkeley students and Internet-selected samples, most of the "lower class" individuals were probably not actually poor.

Minichan