GRE Question of the Day (May 5th)

Verbal

The understanding that human mental bandwidth is a finite and scarce resource could fundamentally change the way we think about poverty. Poverty imposes such a(n) (i)_____ cognitive load on the poor, a mental (ii)_____ akin to losing 13 IQ points, that they have little bandwidth left over to do what might lift them out of poverty – like go to night school or search for a new job. Being poor means coping with not just the financial instability, but also with a concurrent (iii)_____ of cognitive resources.

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