| SvennoJ said: True, you have a safety net. I've always had one too, so I could concentrate on my studies instead of worrying about money. |
Yeah. Actually thinking about it. Oddly enough, I think this is the one result that DOESN'T show what they intend to show either.
Afterall, the expierments they did showed that by reminding poor people they were poor... it caused poor people to perform worse.
So it isn't that poorness just inately makes you stupider by taxing your mental faculties. If anything it just shows the stress of bills and such is a temporary factor that's a problem when evoked.
If it were a permanent factor, the control group would of did the same... you would think. The first group in the expierment should of shown zero change between the poor who were reminded of beign poor and those who weren't. Basically based on the experiment there really shouldn't be any difference between someone who is poor and not given the huge bill, and someone who is poor and given a bunch of money.
Additionally it wouldn't be surprised if the rich did worse after being put in the mindset of "poor" which they didn't actually do.
This study if anything would go agaisnt the "will is a finite thing" suggestion.
