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-Is a myth and also a reality. Being not rich usually leads to having less stuff than rich. Makes sense words would be the same. Hart and risley found “In four years, an average child in a professional family would accumulate experience with almost 45 million words, an average child in a working-class family 26 million words, and an average child in a welfare family 13 million words,”
+Is a myth and also a reality. Being not rich usually leads to having less stuff than being rich. Makes sense words would be the same. Especially when the rich get to decide what words matter.
+Hart and Risley found “In four years, an average child in a professional family would accumulate experience with almost 45 million words, an average child in a working-class family 26 million words, and an average child in a welfare family 13 million words,”
 The methods have been called out for the reductive views on defining language and how data was extrapolated from hour long visits and also being designed to measure deficits of words to answer question.Sperry recently tried to replicate findings and included caregiver bystanders.