Dennis Claxton wrote:
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> EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids
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> http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/12/02_cortex.shtml
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> By Robert Sanders, Media Relations | 02 December 2008
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> BERKELEY University of California, Berkeley,
> researchers have shown for the first time that
> the brains of low-income children function
> differently from the brains of high-income kids.
[Quoted from memory]
Fitzgerald: The rich are different from you and me.
Wise-ass Hemingway: Yes, they have more money.
Hemingway usually gets cited as the winner, but Fitzgerald had it right and Hemingway was blowing it out his ass.
And of course _all_ differences get reflected in brainwaves, which tells us nothing about the source of the differences.
Carrol