On Thu, 17 May 2012 09:54:23 -0400, Ned Simmons wrote:

On Thu, 17 May 2012 09:40:31 -0400, "Existential Angst"
wrote:

"Ignoramus2996" wrote in message
om...

http://web.hbr.org/email/archive/dai...hp?date=051412


MAY 14, 2012
Male Professionals with Higher Ethical Standards Earn Less Although
companies have focused greater attention on the need for ethical
practices over the past few decades, male business professionals who
self-report high ethical character earn, on average,

*Self-report* high ethical character????? Are you effing kidding??

They proly earn 3.4% less bec they are delusional.... LOL



That jumped out at me as well. It'd be interesting to know how the study
controlled for the obvious problem. Reminds me of the old riddle about
the liar and the truth-teller.
http://www.bigriddles.com/riddle/a-l...a-truth-teller

Reports in the press of studies like that never seem to mention such self-
selection.

And they certainly never seem to take into account the people who just
don't answer the survey at all -- they just blithely assume that all the
folks who look at the survey, say "pfffft!!" and toss it in the round
file are exactly like all the folks with interest and time enough to
actually answer the thing.

--
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com