> I do think the grandparent has a point and a lot of these could have a common cause. e.g. a violent environment and poor educational attainment could both be caused by poverty or genes for impulse control or a subculture with a higher acceptance these things.
How does a gene for (presumably less) impulse control make you more likely to have seen someone shot?
And yes growing up in a poor/more violent environment makes you more likely to end up poor with health problems later in life is exactly the point of the study.
> And yes growing up in a poor/more violent environment makes you more likely to end up poor with health problems later in life is exactly the point of the study.
My point is that there may be no causation from seeing violence to poor educational outcomes. E.g. instead of [violence->bad grades] it's [poverty->bad grades] and [poverty->violence], so the there may be no causal arrow between the seeing violence and the later bad grades.
> How does a gene for (presumably less) impulse control make you more likely to have seen someone shot?
Don't get hung up on the genes, it's just an example. Put lead in the water if you prefer.
If your question is genuine then the hypothesis here would be that the lead/genes cause poverty which means needing to live in rougher neighbourhoods.
How does a gene for (presumably less) impulse control make you more likely to have seen someone shot?
And yes growing up in a poor/more violent environment makes you more likely to end up poor with health problems later in life is exactly the point of the study.