The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure?

Re:The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? by gordaco on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:55AM (#17219524)

I don't know why you are being downvoted, since this is a perfectly valid topic that has been researched: http://www.businessinsider.com/poverty-effect-on-intelligenc....

There is also an effect about being time poor and having little to no time to cook. And coming from an also poor and time poor family, and never having learned how to cook. Etc. Poverty fucks you in many ways, and is indeed a complicated beast.

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Re:The Marshmallow Test: What Does It Really Measure? by chiefalchemist on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:13AM (#17219906)

Time. Yes that's important as well. It's not just cooking.

Time is lost waiting for the bus, because you can't afford a car. You wait in line at the store because it can't afford another cashier and better technology. Etc.

People think poverty is their well to do life but with less money. Oh God, that's so ignorant.

BTW, the book Evicted is an eye and heart opener. Highly recommended.

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