Re: Comment on Social Mobility as Slow Today as It Was in Medieval Europe: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

I guess Wanda must be a biologist?  That's the only way I could imagine
that she's convinced by the theory put forth.

If she's not, then her opinion is no better than anybody else's.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:20:41 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > From: "Disqus" <http://www.disqus.net/~notifications>
 >  > Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 22:10:22 -0000
 >  > 
 >  > Wanda Tinasky wrote, in response to Noelle:
 >  > 
 >  > Of course not, neither do I. What I _do_ want is to channel that financial 
 >  > aid to those people who would benefit the most from it (ie, underprivileged 
 >  > kids who have demonstrated some intellectual ability). What research like 
 >  > this would allow us to do (potentially) is to drop the myth that the 
 >  > underprivileged are poor solely because they lack capital resources. 
 >  > Thinking like that results in a lot of money being wasted on people who don'
 >  > t actually have the capacity to benefit from higher education.
 >  > 
 >  > If your concerns are primarily about the potential political misuse of this 
 >  > data (as it appears to be) then you should make that explicit in your 
 >  > comments instead of pointlessly trying to assail the science itself. I agree 
 >  > that policies based on science like this need to be rationally constructed, 
 >  > and we need as many voices as possible focused on that problem.
 >  > 
 >  > Link to comment: 
 >  > http://redirect.disqus.com/url?impression=b9168a0e-d7f2-11e4-9204-002590f0f6c8&experiment=digests&behavior=click&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fa%2Fforum%2FR201503311000%23comment-1938836488%3ADiPQo_wBmATBytN3BjIsHqxvwLY&type=notification.post.registered&variant=active&event=email
 >  > 
 >  > Noelle wrote:
 >  > 
 >  > I just don't want politicians you don't have much confidence in either using 
 >  > this guy's findings as an excuse to give up on helping college students from 
 >  > non-privileged backgrounds, or saying the poor don't need food stamps, it's 
 >  > their fault they can't make enough money.
 >  > It took me 7 years to get a bachelor's degree from UC . I married a 
 >  > smart software engineer who supported me when I was unemployed during the 
 >  > Great Recession. Whenever someone argues something is due to genetics I am 
 >  > not totally closed to the possibility, but many of us you see here are still 
 >  > skeptical that that is the whole explanation.