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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP above.  I'll offer my evidence first:

How Wealth Reduces Compassion

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/[/quote]

I'm the PP you were replying to. This thread just took a turn for the crazy. Unfortunately I am not as well researched as those who are consumed by their irrational views of the world. You asked for evidence, and then proceed to offer your own, which amounts to narrowly focused analysis based on cherry picked data segments. We are talking about the general, not the few.

How do we know that there's a positive correlation between money/education and integrity/ethics? Aside from rational logical deduction, the broad data demonstrates this by showing that higher income and better education leads to less crime. There are numerous analysis showing this data, here's just one after a quick Google search:

http://web.utk.edu/~leon/stat571/Nightingale/Florence%20Nightingale%20Museum%20Web%20Site_files/small.htm

With regards to charity, most of the studies out there address the issue by performing the analysis on a percent-of-income basis, rather than dollar basis. I suppose that's fair enough. Here's an article offering some explanations on why:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2014/10/06/wealthy-americans-are-giving-less-of-their-incomes-to-charity-while-poor-are-donating-more/

I would also add that that people in higher income brackets pay a far higher tax burden, which in turn provides much of the government benefits and services enjoyed disproportionately by those who have lower income. [/quote]

So, you responded to my evidence from a recent peer-reviewed academic paper written by authors from respected educational institutions by citing a study of education and crime rates that appear to correlate in 1847 (?) in a sample of unnamed counties in the UK.[/quote]

Wow.  It took you a few days and had to reach deep in the bag to come up with that one.  I can understand why you want to run fast from engaging in this argument.

I'll leave you to wallow in your lazy, faux intellectualism.[/quote]

The paper you posted and my shared link doesn't address the same topic; so no, one is not the response to the other.

Right, I didn't reply for a few days. I had other things to do over a weekend, like spending time with family and doing productive things rather engage an anonymous person on an internet forum who is so consumed with his ideology that he can regurgitate links, memes and info graphics in abundance on demand. I literally did a quick Google search on "income vs crime rate" and posted one of the first links. Here's the results of another Google search with data sourced from the US Census:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crime_Rate_vs_Income_Change_Black_1st_Quintile_72-90_Correlation.png[/quote]

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