Associations Among School Absenteeism, G.I. and Respiratory Illness, and Income

Post by ses1984 » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 11:36 AM UTC

harryh wrote: post #110

zanny wrote: post #95

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This mindset is crucial. It doesn't make much to meet the bare minimum legal requirements of parenting. It takes a ton to produce thriving minds capable of excelling in the encroaching post-labor reality. So many people treat parenthood as a checkmark on the mandatory itinerary of life and once they check it off they just "eat the cost" and pay to have the kids taken care of. Both those parents, and the poor parents…

LOL, this is ridiculous. My dad worked crazy hours so I didn't see him a ton when I was a kid. My mom worked too. I went to daycare. I went to school. I watched a ton of TV. I turned out just fine. Most of these crazy "investments" that people are putting in their kids has virtually no long term impact. You should read The Nurture Assumption.

Post by likpok » Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 8:40 PM UTC

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It's not all that comparable. U.S. GDP per capita is $60,000. France is $43,500 (PPP). (In terms of GDP per capita, the U.S. is richer than France by about the same ratio as France is richer than Lithuania or Estonia.) Average net financial wealth per household is almost 3x higher in the U.S. than in France, and 2x higher than the OECD average.

Here we go again, using means for extremely skewed distributions :/ OECD reports median household disposable income as $31,100 in France and as $30,600 in the U.S. [1] That's far more relevant than per capita GDP, if you're looking at the typical experience for the typical person. [1] http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/france/