Re:Harvard/Stanford/MIT Researchers Find Secret to Success, ...
by OneGuy123 on Friday October 23, 2020 @12:10PM
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It's all about the indocrinated mindset that the child has: if his father was rich then he sees that as "normal".
If his father was poor he sees that as "normal.
None of those are "good" or "bad": it's just the beliefs about what "normal" is.
It's all about the environment the child is raised in.
Re:Harvard/Stanford/MIT Researchers Find Secret to Success, ...
by babesh on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:33AM
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The title is disingenuous.
The article is based on http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/inve... which states that “Children at the top of their 3rd grade math class are much more likely to become inventors, but only if they come from high-income families (Figure 2)”.
The chart does show high performing kids producing more inventions irrespective of class but with the rich kids producing at approximately double the rate. There seems to be a clear pattern of increasing invention with increasing scores for poor kids but not so for rich kids till you get to the top performing kids.
The secret to success appears to be a combination of talent and opportunity in approximately equal measures. The article also points out that opportunities are not equal.
Sounds like the classical nature or nurture question with the answer being both. You aren’t getting very far without talent.
None of those are "good" or "bad": it's just the beliefs about what "normal" is.
It's all about the environment the child is raised in.
The article is based on http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/inve... which states that “Children at the top of their 3rd grade math class are much more likely to become inventors, but only if they come from high-income families (Figure 2)”.
The chart does show high performing kids producing more inventions irrespective of class but with the rich kids producing at approximately double the rate. There seems to be a clear pattern of increasing invention with increasing scores for poor kids but not so for rich kids till you get to the top performing kids.
The secret to success appears to be a combination of talent and opportunity in approximately equal measures. The article also points out that opportunities are not equal.
Sounds like the classical nature or nurture question with the answer being both. You aren’t getting very far without talent.