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Undertoad · 09-01-2018, 08:50 AM

I missed that, but: how many conclusions are we going to draw around a tiny (3000 families), tightly knit, non-diverse (Ukrainian), proud (some people refused the assistance), prairie (typically high work ethic), remote (nearest city is 3.5 hours away) population that knew this was experimental and the checks would eventually stop coming? (Wikipedia page on Mincome experiment)

I don't question the idea that the poor people's situation is modestly temporarily improved. Surely it is (although I'm still not buying that it bumps your IQ by a standard deviation). The question is what happens in the long term, not to just the poor but to everybody, not just over five years but over several generations.

09-01-2018, 08:50 AM	#41
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I missed that, but: how many conclusions are we going to draw around a tiny (3000 families), tightly knit, non-diverse (Ukrainian), proud (some people refused the assistance), prairie (typically high work ethic), remote (nearest city is 3.5 hours away) population that knew this was experimental and the checks would eventually stop coming? (Wikipedia page on Mincome experiment) I don't question the idea that the poor people's situation is modestly temporarily improved. Surely it is (although I'm still not buying that it bumps your IQ by a standard deviation). The question is what happens in the long term, not to just the poor but to everybody, not just over five years but over several generations.