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Originally Posted by Daradon
Actually it's only a 'financial incentive' if you're giving them something. Not if you're taking it away. Then you're just cold, lol.
incentive (noun) something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.
Like the experiments they did with smokers who were pregnant (not saying it's a good idea, just using it as an example), giving them increasingly larger amounts with each week they were clean from smoke. It had a percentage of effectiveness in the high 80's. You're right, financial incentives DO work very well.
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Haha yeah, I know. But I didnt know what else to call it. A discentive? Financial (de)motivator?
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Originally Posted by Daradon
Unfortunately, I don't believe the opposite is true. And that's what you're proposing. Look at the States, they have a very high level of teen pregnancy with a very low level of support (on a Western world basis anyway).
Here's a site I found that has them ranked 1st per capita. Canada is ranked 9th and has less than half the rate. This kinda shoots your argument in the foot. I guess we don't know what a country with NO assistance would look like, but less assistance isn't helping people make better choices. In fact, it does look like it's just adding to the cycle.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/he...ncy-per-capita
Not coming up with assistance is not a 'financial incentive'. Yes it's a financial decision, but incentives are pluses or rewards, not a system which is the status quo or removal of that system. |
I don't think you are looking at the chart the right way. You can't compare USA to Canada to Zimbabwe.
You can compare USA (no support) to USA (little support) to USA (a lot of support).
I say that USA (lot of support) gets the highest % of teen pregnancies and USA (no support) lowest. Disagree?
BTW My country ranks 2nd on that list
