Re:How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
by lupusreal on Friday July 26, 2024 @04:22AM
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I've been poor, flat broke for years in fact, but I've never felt any compulsion to stab some stranger on the street. Can you explain the mechanism linking poverty to murderous impulse?
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Re:How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
by maccard on Friday July 26, 2024 @05:35AM
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The other replies have an excellent example in Poland. To respond to your anecdote - that’s not how statistics works. It doesn’t mean that everyone under a certain criteria will immediately stab someone. You can have privileged women [0] perform these acts too.
[0] https://amp.theguardian.com/law/2017/sep/25/oxford-student-l...
Re:How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
by lupusreal on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:33AM
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The best you might have is a correlation between poverty and being homicidal, but you don't have any causal mechanism from poverty to homicidal because there isn't one.
Re:How Phones Are Making Parents the Anxious Generation
by revert_to_test on Friday July 26, 2024 @04:57AM
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234816/
Also, private observation : Poland was relatively safe country during communist rule, although everyone was very poor. Then '90s happened, income disparity went through the roof, unemployment skyrocketed, and you could be greeted on the street by a group of young gentlemen asking you for your possessions, not to mention extreme gang violence and fights between hooligans.