A word or two of explanation.. Archived Message
Posted by Gerard on October 26, 2019, 8:07 pm, in reply to "You only had to ask - consider it done nm"
"there have even been recent articles that identify the "suited and booted" -esp. male members of LGBT community-, as being so discriminated for that they are out earning their strait colleagues-)" I saw another article on Twitter recently but didn't read it, berating myself now for not saving it properly at the time.. Quote; "Until now. In a recent paper, a PhD student and I analyzed data from a major federal survey in the United States that had not previously been used in this literature – presumably because it only recently began to ask about sexual orientation – and found that the gay male earnings penalty had disappeared. And not only had it disappeared, it had turned into a 10% premium, meaning that gay men in recent years earned substantially more than straight men with similar education, experience, and job profiles. We went back through the published literature to see if we were making new or strange measurement or specification choices. We were not. We double- and triple-checked the dataset for other patterns that would indicate some fundamental error or data problem. We found none. We subjected the gay male earnings premium to a host of extra tests to see if we could make the result go away. We could not." https://hbr.org/2017/12/gay-men-used-to-earn-less-than-straight-men-now-they-earn-more Now why shouldn't they? You might ask.....well it's a matter of balance, the see-saw will find equilibrium but during the process it is as well to ask which gay men are benefiting....would it be the same crew who (for various sociological, psychological, political and other reasons), did not address the truth behind the creation of the AIDS virus....the sort who love their lapdogs (and laptops! -being addicted to WiFi ephemera-), but weren't concerned enough about the welfare of animals to be able to avail themselves of the National Anti-Vivisection Society literature that became extant some years after the AIDS virus had properly developed its profile within the population? The sort of monetarists who feel that Thatcher-ism and Reagan-omics were part of their own personal liberation? The kind who would rather artificially create life than adopt that which has been created naturally? The sort of Brown Shirts (in other words), who actually believe; "Arbeit Macht Frei"?
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