If you are in poverty, you will be overwhelmed by the poor situation and you will not be able to get out of poverty.
By
Everyone has the experience of not being completely distracted by other things when they are full of serious events, due to the limited capacity of the brain. Research has shown that poor people cannot afford such brain bandwidth.
Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1238041
How Poverty Taxes the Brain --Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-08-29/how-poverty-taxes-the-brain
◆ Recognition band
The reason why other things disappear from my mind when I concentrate on solving one problem is that there is a limit to the 'brain capacity (recognition band)'. The recognition band is a valuable 'resource' and must be shared well.
With regard to this 'cognitive band', people in poverty are always made aware of the fact that they are 'poor', so they are short of cognitive band and pay attention to what they should do to get out of poverty. Research results have been announced that it cannot be done. In other words, the band of cognition of the poor is filled with the fact of 'poverty', and it is impossible to get out of that situation. This treatise will be published in Science, published on August 30th.
By
◆ Poverty
A series of experiments conducted by research teams at Princeton University, Harvard University, and the University of Warwick confirm this 'poor band shortage.' In this study, about 400 people were randomly selected from a shopping mall in New Jersey, divided into 'poor' and 'rich' according to their annual income, and then cognitive function was tested. First, the subject is given two assumptions: 'a case where repairing one's car costs $ 150 (about 15,000 yen)' and 'a case where it costs $ 1,500 (about 150,000 yen)'. The subject was then given a cognitive test while thinking about car repair. The results of the experiment showed that there was no big difference between the poor and the rich when the repair amount was $ 150, but when the repair amount was $ 1,500, the test results for the poor were worse. For the wealthy, there was no difference in the results.
The results of this test show that the financial problem of 150,000 yen for poor people imposes a heavy burden on the cognitive band .
By
Researchers also investigated a band of perceptions of some Indian farmers, who, just before the harvest season (that is, in poverty), where they receive 60% of their annual income, as well as the subjects in the New Jersey experiment. , It turned out that the recognition band was insufficient.
In addition, another study found that 'the psychological burden of poverty is equivalent to losing 13 points of IQ and comparable to the difference between chronic alcoholics and healthy individuals. It has become clear.
Professor Eldar Shafir of Princeton University, who conducted the experiment, said, 'In a state where the cognitive band is filled (in the case of poverty), things cannot be recognized correctly, it becomes impossible to resist what should be resisted, it becomes easy to forget things, and patience. I lose power . ' This means that when society is in a recession and many people feel poverty, a large amount of cognitive ability is lost from society as a whole.
By Fady Aziz
◆ Poverty problem
Thus, it became clear that there is a close relationship between 'recognition' and 'poverty,' but researchers point out that understanding this is of great significance. 'Financially stabilizing the poor has the great advantage of giving them awareness and the resulting variety of activities,' Shafir said of the significance of the poor support program. The doctor insists.
In response to the question, 'Does poverty depressing IQ by 13 points mean that people with lower IQ fall into poverty?' Dr. Shafir said, 'We are also concerned about that. But scientific data denies this: low IQ isn't poor, but poor IQ is low, not a person's problem, but an environment in which they are. The data shows. '
Related Posts:
