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by inglor_cz
1793 days ago
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"How do you define success?" Let us look at the USA of today and its social ills. Quality of a random person's life is undeniably better if they manage: * to avoid going into jail/prison,
* to always have a home,
* to be drug-free, or at least drug addiction-free,
* to be fit (= not obese),
* to be employed or self-employed,
* to finish their high school education at least. Those points might sound modest, but if someone can tick off all of them, they are already sorta successful, especially compared to someone who can only tick off one or two. A nation of people who could tick off 5 of 6 would probably be much happier than contemporary America. Do all those points correlate with IQ? I would guess yes, but IANA Social Scientist. |
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The activists who talk about inequities at the population group level, and ignore the statistics on teen birth rates and single parent family rates above 70% isn't being honest.
Across all ethnic groups, isolating for income level, males raised without fathers commit crimes at dramatically higher rates, drop-out of school at dramatically higher rates, and are more likely to engage in violence. I grew up in a poor county that happened to be mostly Black, but with a significant population of poor whites as well. The common denominator of kids dropping out of school, or getting arrested for hitting their mom when they were 14, 15 years old wasn't race, it was absentee fathers. Incarceration rates aren't remotely high enough to explain the absent fathers in the United States. The vast, vast majority of absentee fathers are not in prison, they are just not around.