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Netherlands has (one of?) the highest rates of part time work, which would explain this disparity if you're thinking only of full time norms. > The data is uns
by lucideer 8y ago
Netherlands has (one of?) the highest rates of part time work, which would explain this disparity if you're thinking only of full time norms.
> The data is unsuitable for this article
That disclaimer is primarily dissuading comparing a single year across countries, which is reasonable (studies are usually performed within different time periods). The data is, as stated, perfectly suitable for identifying trends.
- em500 8y ago> That disclaimer is primarily dissuading comparing a single year across countries, which is of course the entire content of the article. The data source (OECD) isn't blameless either: the default/main view of the data (https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm) shows exactly what their disclaimer says you shouldn't do.
- lucideer 8y agoThe content of the article looks at trends: it looks at productivity in countries tending to be at one end of the hours worked scale versus productivity of countries at the other. Comparing a Mexico and Costa Rica directly wouldn't work but looking at the tendency for those countries to trend toward one side of the scale does.
- em500 8y agoThose are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years. What the article does and what you're describing are cross-country comparisons in a single year, just at the opposing tails of the distribution.
- lucideer 8y ago> Those are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years I think you may be choosing an arbitrarily narrow definition of the word "trend". A typical definition[0] is "an inclination in a particular direction" [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trend https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trend