Comment by philsnow

> If this is the grand reveal -- showing that childhood heavily influences future financial mobility -- it's not super obvious. I mean, yes, there seem to be a bit of a skew towards low earners in the bottom tranche -- but really it looks like the group that has had some astounding headwinds is kinda sorta doing about the same as the 'no adverse experiences' group?

This was my takeaway as well. My expectation was that the longitudinal study would show that bad experiences compound much more dramatically over time than the video appears to suggest.

Another issue I have with the presentation is that I had to keep pausing and carefully considering what each slide was saying, because the first several slides start by

  - categorizing people according to whether they had bad experiences or not,
  - arranging them spatially in one big group on the "bad experiences" axis,
  - and coloring them according to the severity / occurrence.

So now my brain thinks "okay, warmer colors mean more/worse childhood experiences. got it.", but then all the following slides

  - categorize people on lots of different dimensions (income, health, etc)
    - but always grouped spatially by no/some/many bad experiences
  - color them according to the dimension being measured
    - some of them are arranged spatially in reverse order compared to the
      legend, see 4:50 in the linked video / the slide on "general health"

So the entire time, I'm fighting my brain which is telling me "warmer colors -> bad experiences".

I wonder if it would be clearer if the measurement slides were instead grouped / arranged spatially by outcomes and colored according to the childhood experiences.

edit: it's ugly as heck but this is kind of what I mean:

their slide: https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-16T10-16-25.uifh7bss3d5f66b...

proposed rearrangement + recoloring: https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-16T10-45-19.n7ft281jipgv3tx...

Like I said, it's ugly, I obviously just copy/pasted regions around, but it should get across the idea that this would make it easier to see the proportions of each measurement class (income bucket, health bucket, etc) according to childhood experiences.