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Researchers publishing some groundbreaking findings today in the journal
Science have concluded that poverty imposes such a massive cognitive
load on the poor that they have little bandwidth left over to do many of
the things that might lift them out of poverty -- like go to night
school, or search for a new job, or even remember to pay bills on time.
In a series of experiments run by researchers at Princeton, Harvard, and
the University of Warwick, low-income people who were primed to think
about financial problems performed poorly on a series of cognition
tests, saddled with a mental load that was the equivalent of losing an
entire night's sleep. Put another way, the condition of poverty imposed a
mental burden akin to losing 13 IQ points, or comparable to the
cognitive difference that's been observed between chronic alcoholics and
normal adults...".* Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (TYT University and
Common Room), Dave Rubin (The Rubin Report), and Desi Doyen (Green News
Report) break it down on The Young Turks.
