{"id":2828,"date":"2013-06-04T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2013-06-04T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:31:18","slug":"actually-its-good-for-low-income-kids-if-their-mom-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/04\/actually-its-good-for-low-income-kids-if-their-mom-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Actually, it&#8217;s good for low-income kids if their mom\u00c2\u00a0works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the PsySociety blog, Melanie Tannenbaum looks at the meta-analysis cited by Erik Erikson of Redstate.com as proof that low-income families fare worse when mom works outside the home \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/psysociety\/2013\/06\/03\/fox-news-fact-check-is-it-bad-for-lower-income-kids-if-mom-has-a-job-outside-the-home\/\">and finds that it says exactly the opposite<\/a>. This post is notable not only for deconstructing a &#8220;common sense&#8221; belief, but also for doing a great job of explaining what a meta-analysis is and why it matters. Also provides a full daily serving of Fox News schadenfreude. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rss.feedsportal.com\/c\/35208\/f\/653965\/s\/2cd346e9\/mf.gif?resize=1%2C1\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"middle\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/twitter\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2013%2F06%2F04%2Factually-its-good-for-low-i.html&amp;t=Actually%2C+it%27s+good+for+low-income+kids+if+their+mom%C2%A0works\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/twitter.png?w=525\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/facebook\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2013%2F06%2F04%2Factually-its-good-for-low-i.html&amp;t=Actually%2C+it%27s+good+for+low-income+kids+if+their+mom%C2%A0works\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/facebook.png?w=525\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/linkedin\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2013%2F06%2F04%2Factually-its-good-for-low-i.html&amp;t=Actually%2C+it%27s+good+for+low-income+kids+if+their+mom%C2%A0works\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/linkedin.png?w=525\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/gplus\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2013%2F06%2F04%2Factually-its-good-for-low-i.html&amp;t=Actually%2C+it%27s+good+for+low-income+kids+if+their+mom%C2%A0works\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/googleplus.png?w=525\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/share.feedsportal.com\/share\/email\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fboingboing.net%2F2013%2F06%2F04%2Factually-its-good-for-low-i.html&amp;t=Actually%2C+it%27s+good+for+low-income+kids+if+their+mom%C2%A0works\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/res3.feedsportal.com\/social\/email.png?w=525\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"middle\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/165664827783\/u\/49\/f\/653965\/c\/35208\/s\/2cd346e9\/a2.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/da.feedsportal.com\/r\/165664827783\/u\/49\/f\/653965\/c\/35208\/s\/2cd346e9\/a2.img\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pi.feedsportal.com\/r\/165664827783\/u\/49\/f\/653965\/c\/35208\/s\/2cd346e9\/a2t.img\" border=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/-VSOaJfT124\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>via Boing Boing <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/06\/04\/actually-its-good-for-low-i.html\">http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/06\/04\/actually-its-good-for-low-i.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the PsySociety blog, Melanie Tannenbaum looks at the meta-analysis cited by Erik Erikson of Redstate.com as proof that low-income families fare worse when mom works outside the home \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and finds that it says exactly the opposite. This post is notable not only for deconstructing a &#8220;common sense&#8221; belief, but also for doing a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/04\/actually-its-good-for-low-income-kids-if-their-mom-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Actually, it&#8217;s good for low-income kids if their mom\u00c2\u00a0works&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[126,6,134],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-boing-boing","tag-ifttt","tag-maggie-koerth-baker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-JC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}