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So does mean that money makes executives mean or that mean executives pay themselves more than nice executives? Correlation is not causation.
by epochwolf 16y ago
So does mean that money makes executives mean or that mean executives pay themselves more than nice executives?
Correlation is not causation.
- mistermann 16y agoThe article seemed to indicate performing experiments where meanness could be created in the test subject by altering parameters of the experiment (granting them more power).
- hugh3 16y agoAs far as I can decode the experiment, it seems that people who were told "you did one question better on the test, we gave you 65 points and the other person 15 points" were more likely to be mean than people who were told "you did one question better on the test, we gave you 65 points and the other person 60". The link to executive compensation is highly nonobvious.
- zb 16y agoIn the study the participants were all assigned the same "compensation", and randomly assigned to groups where the fictional employee had either high or low "compensation" inequality. So to the extent that this study supports the conclusion, it's not because mean executives pay themselves more. Does anybody read the articles any more, or just the headlines?
- epochwolf 16y agoI did read the article. I guess I missed something.