Low parental income in childhood linked to increased risk of mental disorders

Re:Low parental income in childhood linked to increased risk... by throwaway7281 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @07:40AM (#25169377)

If you have me guess, what the effect of low access to resources is (time, money, health, job, anything) I will bet having lower resources will have an adverse effect - because that is kind of the definition of it.

When I read these studies, I'm thinking that this "fact" is disputed and low access to resource may have positive effects - which is ridiculous.

A kind of second order implication of this is that it's more important to research the problem than to solve it (I know you need to understand the problem first, but I think it is not that complicated).

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Re:Low parental income in childhood linked to increased risk... by thih9 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @08:06AM (#25169501)

> When I read these studies, I'm thinking that this "fact" is disputed

Being critical in a scientific context shouldn’t be wrong. True, it might be hard to balance.

> it's more important to research the problem than to solve it

Yes, I’d say research is the necessary first step.

Human intuition can always be wrong. Regardless, the results of a research can provide useful pointers about next steps.

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