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		atwrk 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: US High school students' scores fall in reading an... The causal direction from poverty to learned helplessness is pretty much established, though

philipallstar 3 months ago [–]

Learned helplessness is poverty+some other things, though. Otherwise no one in poverty would ever leave it. Just talking about causal direction elides reality.

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