Random Thoughts

[quoin]

The phrase that I've heard way too much lately and now gets an automatic fuck you:

"You are a valued customer and your call is important to us."

Customer service can't and won't do a damn thing to help me.

[outtathereligioncloset]

"This is your last chance to lower your interest rates."

"This is your last chance to get an extended warranty on your vehicle."

I WISH.

[Silver]

Corral was bitten, he dead.

But now I'm thinking, as I continue to watch, what if Carl is somehow the cure because he will somehow recover?

On another note, I guess I won't be able to keep up with GoT since it's not on Netflix or Hulu.

[Silver]

The boyfriend was the only person to wish me a happy birthday on FB. October 2nd.

At least this forum proved itself better.

[Cod]

The boyfriend was the only person to wish me a happy birthday on FB.  October 2nd.  

At least this forum proved itself better.

I found most people on FB are not real friends, just nosey fuckers wanting to know your business. I deleted my account.

[purplepurpose]

Never heard up to now about levels of evidence.

[Joods]

The boyfriend was the only person to wish me a happy birthday on FB.  October 2nd.  

At least this forum proved itself better.

The phone app doesn't always alert me when there are birthdays. I have over 300 friends. I might have been wished a happy birthday by maybe 35 of them. No big deal. 

Don't sweat the small stuff, man.

[Silver]

Trying to eat healthier:

Chopped up raw yellow and red peppers and wheat rice mixed with soy sauce.

[Joods]

Getting ready to run errands. This is the start of week 3 since I last filled the gas tank to the jeep. I just don't desire to go anywhere. Staying home saves money.

[Angrboda]

It’s better to be born rich than gifted

A revolution in genomics is creeping into economics. It allows us to say something we might have suspected, but could never confirm: money trumps genes.

Using one new, genome-based measure, economists found genetic endowments are distributed almost equally among children in low-income and high-income families. Success is not.

The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents.

First, consider the people whose genome scores in the top quarter on a genetic index the researchers associated with educational achievement.

Only about 24 percent of people born to low-income fathers in that high-potential group graduate from college.

That’s dwarfed by the 63 percent college graduation rate of people with similar genetic scores who are lucky enough to be born to high-income fathers.

Contrast that with a finding from the other end of the genetic scoring scale: about 27 percent of those who score at the bottom quarter of the genetic index, but are born to high-income fathers, graduate from college. That means they’re at least as likely to graduate from college as the highest-scoring low-income students.

The application of genetics to economics is in its infancy. Limitations abound. Most notably, researchers are forced to focus on white people. The world’s genomic data comes overwhelmingly from people of European descent, and genetic comparisons across races can produce bizarre results.

But it can already begin to expose truths about the economy. The figures above come from a new, genome-based study of economic data which aims straight at the heart of the popular conception of America as a meritocracy.

“It goes against the narrative that there are substantial genetic differences between people who are born into wealthy households and those born into poverty,” said Kevin Thom, a New York University economist and author of a related working paper released recently by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

“If you don’t have the family resources, even the bright kids — the kids who are naturally gifted — are going to have to face uphill battles,” Thom said.