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Assorted links
1. One argument against a gas tax
3. Regulating misleading advertising
4. Is the gender pay gap "stuck"?
5. Department of "Hee!"
Posted by Tyler Cowen on December 24, 2006 at 06:24 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink
Comments
Re; The 'gender pay gap'.
Such a lot of nonsense is talked about this. It has almost nothing to do with 'discrimination' - which is openly and explicitly positive in favour of women in most workplaces nowadays and for a couple of decades.
Most of the 'gap' is merely a product of poor analysis, lacking proper control for confounding factors (especillay hours worked, years of service, amount of work-related travel and other measures of single-minded committment).
What gap remains is due to the fact that men and women have different psychologies (sex - like age - is a biological reality), and so will never perform identically unless temperament is also controlled-for.
But his whole debate is fuelled by a rather nasty desire to provoke womens' resentment and suspicions, and promote a regulatory and bureaucratic agenda. Science has very little to do with it.
Posted by: Bruce G Charlton at Dec 25, 2006 1:32:57 PM
I was expecting a funnier post for the "one argument" link.
Posted by: aaron at Dec 27, 2006 4:13:12 PM
