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In reply to the discussion: I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT trump is going to lose in November. [View all]qazplm135
(7,654 posts)Let me ask you this...
We know that poverty is associated with poorer health, fewer educational opportunities, more run-ins with the police so more likely than not to have a criminal record, live shorter lives, have domestic and child abuse happen in their lives.
Now that does NOT mean that poor people suck, I'm not saying that at all. I am saying that statisically socio-economics is related to where you live, and how your live goes. Not perfectly, people beat it. I'm an example of that. Grew up poor, with alcoholic parents, the whole sad list. But I was one of the lucky ones, with some hard work but also a lot of help and good fortune along the way.
But statistically, as a Black man who grew up in poverty, the odds are high for certain things in my history (even though none of those things are there in my case).
All of the things I listed are high probability events.
If the psychic had said, you will be living in Fiji, married to a Japanese man, with five kids, and all of that happened? OK, those are a string of low probability events that might have you going, boy, that was quite a call.
But a woman smart enough to have headhunters going after her? Probably not going to be hurting for money. She's also probably going to have a small family because education and socio-economic status correlate highly with that. California? Big state, big economy, lots of people move there. Black woman marrying a White man? If this happened in 1965 ok, that would be almost nil. But nowadays? Ain't a big deal, and again interracial dating is more likely at higher educational levels.