One of the great wet roads causes rain moments of our lives. They scanned over 7,000 kids studying various parts of the brain including the amygdala (processing emotion) and the prefrontal cortex volume (long term planing and complex analysis). They found a statistically
One of the many gems in the paper talks about the greatest predictor of prefrontal cortex grey matter volume was parental income levels. Dumb people tend to make less money, and they tend to have dumb kids. Or as this paper puts it, poor parents magically stunt their children’s
I don’t want people to think I’m overstating how silly this paper is. They simply say they expect black kids lives to be worse, and because of this their brains (specific regions in the brain) will have been made smaller. They don’t show anything over time. I can only assume this
