Lesson 32: Siblings and Friends - Slide 20
Siblings Negatively Assign Reasons For Economic Inequality
- Only 9.6% of people said the reason for their sibling being poor was social forces like poverty, lack of opportunity or the pitfalls of a particular career or field
- 82.4% said the reasons for poverty or failure were “bad attitude,” “poor emotional health,” or “lack of determination,” which was the most common reason given
- This study reveals that
we judge our brothers
and sisters harshly
Notes:
Pg. 5-7, “The Pecking Order, Which Siblings Succeed and Why,” Dalton Conley, Pantheon Books, New York, 2004.
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