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Which came first, correlation or causality?
Here is the headline at New Scientist…
Go on. Read the article. It verifies that high earning families produce brighter children. They posit vairous hypotheses to explain how your fat paycheck makes your child smarter.
More money may enable parents to better support their child’s cognitive development, allowing them to buy more nutritious food, for example. It may also mean parents are less stressed and can devote more time to their children. “We believe these differences are likely to be most influential early in childhood, when the brain is most malleable to experience,” says Noble.
Here are my questions for you:
1) Is it true that being a member of a wealthy family makes you smart, or
2) Does being from a smart family make you wealthy?
Nowhere in the article do they even suggest as possible an affirmative answer to question #2.
Discuss.
Source: http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=129779
