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Re:How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? by taneq on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:00AM (#13283942)
What about the glaring third option, "kids who go to nice kindergartens are probably well off and hence well positioned to succeed in life"?
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Re:How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? by ThrustVectoring on Friday December 30, 2016 @03:19PM (#13287089)
Yeah, that's definitely a thing as well. I wasn't terribly precise in how I worded things. I was getting at something like "given that going to a nice kindergarten causes better life outcomes than going to a shitty kindergarten, there's two mechanisms that explain that causal link."
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Re:How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? by sergiosgc on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:13AM (#13283983)
That's not a causal explanation, in this context. ThrustVectoring specifically limited the comment to causal explanations: why do better kindergarten classes cause better life outcomes.
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Re:How Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings? by taneq on Friday December 30, 2016 @07:45AM (#13284096)
Common cause is a causal explanation.
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