Compassion in the hard face of science

[dileepp89]

PHILADELPHIA: Friday morning, I watched my Twitter timeline explode into moralizing chaos in reaction to a distorted, but widely distributed article that explains a recent study on how “Poverty Impedes Cognitive Ability.”

The study itself, published in Science, asks policy-makers to “beware of imposing cognitive taxes on the poor,” such as “filling out long forms, preparing for a lengthy interview,” all of which evidently interrupt cognitive abilities.

http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2013/08/31/compassion-hard-face-science/