If growing up in poverty causes one to be poor...
...shouldn't the poverty rate have been growing with each generation?
It's been on the decline for 40 years. But then you have to ask is poverty in decline or is wealth on the increase?
Or, if you are saying it is built into the hypothesis from the start, then that is irrelevant. *Any* hypothesis is valid, if you design an experiment to prove or disprove it, fairly.
Yeah, I think it's built in. IMO it's not irrelevant because bias trumps fairness.
[*if* you can first make the correlation that poor kids smoke more than less poor kids. I think your bias may be showing here]
You're right, my bad.