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by vivekd 8y ago
I assume you're refering to the CONSAD reserach study which found a gap of between 95 to 93 cents on the dollar. That study did not in fact control for status chasing - nor did it compare men and women in similar roles with similar pe
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by vivekd 8y ago
Well in this case the people who are wrong include most of academia, most of the popular media, and the former president of the United States. They were all touting the 77 cents figure I think that's a pretty big deal.
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I want to add that "actual employment rate" or labor market participation rate is also a grossly misleading figure. For example America had it's highest labor market participation rate in 2000 - during the great recession.
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Well there are other factors you need to control for too, men are more likely to try and choose higher paying jobs because social status and attractiveness to potential mates is impacted by a man's wealth. This is not the case for wom
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by vivekd 8y ago
not every post has to be completely on topic, it was topical to the issue of unreliable figures skewing economic data which was what the subtopic was about. I admit he was bringing up an inflammatory topic, but really I expect a place like
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by vivekd 8y ago
work life balance: Men work longer hours https://www.forbes.com/sites/karinagness/2016/06/30/new-repo... Women tend to choose more fulfilling lower paying careers (last point on fortune and second
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by vivekd 8y ago
Why was this downvoted? Women tend not to be crazy like men and thus are more likely to choose fulfiling careers that have lower pay, and seek more work life balance. When accounting for these factors, the existence of a gender pay gap b
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by vivekd 8y ago
One could argue that this was tried on a micro scale with the EU. While there is an argument to be made that it did bring some economic growth but nothing near as close to the growth advertised by the economist.
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If anything this will make court time longer - you better believe lawyers are going to challenge every aspect of the face recognition software and it's validity in courtroom identification
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>Previously happy and well-adjusted children became frightened of the dark, prone to fits of crying, or displayed violent behaviour and talked about self-harm I'm all for keeping kids away from mature content, and I think parents sh
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If they have to promise a prize or gift for turning to the last page, isn't this something that Bayesian filtering could solve fairly quickly.
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by vivekd 8y ago
Just a few days ago on hn I discovered the stanford prison expweiment was largely faked, and now this. I guess this is good reason to be suspicious of pop science factoids that often get thrown around in discussions.
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by vivekd 8y ago
I admit don't fully understand Y-chromosome lineage, but from a layman's perspective this doesn't seem to fit. Imagine 5 - 7000 years ago humans first started experimenting with animal husbandry, and sedentary lifestyles in m
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by vivekd 8y ago
It might be more accurate to say that previous studies showing a relationship between sexual preference and menstrual cycles are not reproducible. I think they just put it in more layperson's terms. The economist headline is naturally
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But wouldn't that still inevitability lead to the conclusion that rna is where memories are stored and synaptic strength is just how memory gets expressed in a way our brains can interact with.
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layperson's question: Since rna is gets information from the dna and is involved in the expression and regulating of genes, does this mean that memory somehow becomes encoded in our genes?
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What's interesting is who they targeted - they targeted right wing patriotic movements as well as left wing gay rights groups and minorities who may feel disenfranchised like Muslims and blacks. It's as if they looked at America&
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As a lawyer, I support your personal advice that no one should be anywhere near the legal limit while behind the wheel. I advocate for 0 drinks before driving. That said I want to correct a few things: 1. In many jurisdictions, including m
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Brussels sprouts, kale, cauliflower, and cabbage come from single plant species(vox.com)
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As a Canadian it makes me elated to see one of our big broadcasting oligopolies take a hit. What caught my eye was : >Undeterred, Ramsay filed a complaint with the Commission for Complaints for Telecom-television Services (the CCTS), a
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by vivekd 8y ago
This is the part I'm wondering about - my uncle died of a malignant brain tumor recently. I wonder if it would be possible to use a technique like this to transplant parts of a healthy donor brain to his brain. I read about two being
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by vivekd 8y ago
I don't consider it unlikely at all considering that the human entrance into N. America coincides with huge climate change events - the Younger Dryas cold snap followed by the abrupt and quick Holocene warming event. It's even pos
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by vivekd 8y ago
I was in S. Korea for a bit and I heard a North Korean ex-patriot speak and she said something I thought was really wise. Which was - what's in it for S. Korea when it comes to reconciliation? N. Korea is way behind in terms of techn
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by vivekd 8y ago
I would doubt this because from 1998 to 2008 Korea has had liberal presidents who had a policy of engagement towards North Korea and we didn't get peace in that time. While getting rid of Park Geun-Hye certainly made this easier - I th
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Is it really difficult to check empirically? It seems to be as simple as finding the number of investors and the amounts invested and checking that historically against the interest rate while controlling for things like population and GDP
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Because responsibility should be based on what you do, and whether you did anything wrong, and not based solely on what mode of transportation you were using.
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strict liability is a legal term of art that means something along the lines of "you are guilty no matter what the reason." It's used in North America can be found often in things like traffic tickets or regulatory offences.
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>As a result, Lundgren pleaded guilty to two of 21 charges, conspiracy and copyright infringement I don't understand why he pleaded guilty - the testimony about the data being worth 0 means nothing with a plea of guilty.
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Why would anyone think you need ML or AI to make letters on a page fit a color gradient. Are these investors crazy? I can't even think of an application for that technology in bee line reader.
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by vivekd 9y ago
How would this even work? Didn't they explicitly agree to a terms of service with facebook that gave facebook access to their data? Didn't they do this while freely choosing to use facebook's services which they presumably

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