"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
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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
news:IradnQ9sEeqWZinSnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d@giganews. com...

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.

Most studies you read nowadays are the product of desperate PhDs tryna keep
dey useless jobs -- the proverbial publish or perish.
It was ALWAYS publish or perish, except previously "quality" -- heh, and
honesty -- was implicit. Now, it's any goddammthing, incl, I think,
confabulation.

Science stopped being science shortly after Watson&Crick -- partic Watson --
stole Linus Pauling's THIRD nobel prize. And Roslyn Franck's, and a bunch
of others.

Pauling was LITERALLY minutes away from solving the structure. He had
ALREADY solved the triple helix of alpha keratin, and had deduced the double
helix structure of DNA, except with an inverted backbone. A cupla more
minutes with the data Watson had hijacked, and bang......

And there's always the Bogdanoff Bros.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogdanov_Affair

And their chins:
http://www.celebrityplasticsurgery.t...anoff-brothers

Science hasn't been the same since. And in the last 20 years, since Big
Pharma has infiltrated the University system, just forget it, you cain't
hardly believe *textbooks* any more.
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