It could be expected that people with greater economic means or greater educational levels might be much more aggressive in seeking out eye care and some of them might even be seeking eye cares outside their area.
The reading test score an indicator of crystallised intelligence, lifetime intellectual activity, and cultural exposure is seen to have a greater impact than educational level, which was not retained by the initial risk model.
In multivariate analysis younger age, higher educational level, greater wealth and greater social capital (being married or cohabiting, high trust and solidarity, lack of safety, higher civic engagement and greater psychological resources) were associated with better cognitive functioning.
The reference populations had a greater proportion of women and greater proportions with higher educational level or white-collar workers than the study population.
Better cognitive functioning was associated with younger age, higher educational level, greater wealth and higher social capital (being married or cohabiting, high trust and solidarity, lack of safety, higher civic engagement and greater psychological resources).
Predictors of nPEP use among trial participants included higher educational level, greater recreational drug use, study enrollment in California, and having a known HIV-infected partner.
Overall, there was evidence for male sex, age, higher educational level, greater weekday sun exposure in warmer months, absence of variant MC1R alleles, and sunscreen used to stay out in the sun longer as predictors of blotchy facial pigmentation.
Also men in disadvantaged areas, where levels of unemployment is higher and the proportion of individuals with low educational level greater, had a smaller increase in number of visits than men in the rest of Stockholm County, suggesting that men in disadvantaged areas did not benefit from the reform as expected.
There seems therefore no doubt that the under-attainment of NW students applying to university, be it for medicine or in general, is part of a broader pattern of under-attainment throughout pre-school education, compulsory and post-compulsory education, perhaps exaggerated at A level by greater educational aspirations in NW students.
Bourdieu noted: "The proportion who declare that a sunset can make a beautiful photo is greatest at the lowest educational level, declines at intermediate levels and grows strongly again among those who have completed several years of higher education and who tend to consider that anything is suitable for beautiful photography".
