This piece brings two quotes to mind. "It has become a sarcastic proverb that a thing must be true if you saw it in a newspaper. That is the opinion intelligent people have of that lying vehicle in a nutshell. But the trouble is that the stupid people -- who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations -- do believe and are moulded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper, and there is where the harm lies." - Samuel Langhorne Clemens ""There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Samuel Langhorne Clemens There is not much to be said about or referenced regarding this article. It is basically a copy and paste job of a think-tank study masquerading as ostensibly insightful and original reporting. It should be noted that RAND (or more accurately RAND Corporation) was founded in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. There has been much criticism over the years of RAND Corporation's straying too far afield from its original purpose. The RAND study noted here would be considered in more critical quarters to be an example of such. Insofar as this "reporting" comes from Harvard University, some might consider it a worthwhile read. However, if that bit of favor does not spring from the prospective reader's pique its value in that respect, especially in precious time spent reading it, decreases by several orders of magnitude.