Posted on 11/20/2017 11:43:00 PM PST by blam
" He became well-known for his controversial book The Bell Curve (1994), written with Richard Herrnstein, in which he argues that intelligence is a better predictor than parental socio-economic status or education level of many individual outcomes including income, job performance, pregnancy out of wedlock, and crime, and that social welfare programs and education efforts to improve social outcomes for the disadvantaged are largely wasted."
Given my experience with today’s work force, I had to double check whether that graph represented percent per day or hours per day!
To grasp the Bell Curve is to understand the whole world.
A one hour visit to the DMV, welfare/food stamp office or any retailer would demonstrate this. Then add the Millennial age group into the mix. Not all Millennials, of course.
Yup. It was gifted to me in 1995.
Trivia Quiz cards for the Economist:
400 questions
1,000 answers.
I once asked a machine shop owner how many people worked for him. He responded: “Oh, I’m not sure. I’d say about half”.
I once asked a machine shop owner how many people worked for him. He responded: “Oh, I’m not sure. I’d say about half”.
Well, we have to work twice as long and twice as hard because of our unchecked privilege.
You should check out ‘the black swan’ from your local library;)
bmp
My first thought was what would this look like if government employees were excluded?
Probably yet another junk research excluding the elephant in the room : IQ.
Working hardest and longest is mostly irrelevant to income, otherwise third world countries with much longer work hours would have higher incomes.
What counts is working competently and efficiently and the higher IQ, the better.
Whenever I see statistics like this, I always wonder “how” and “who” is defining the performance being studied.
In my experience I have found very few occupations where performance can be quantified like a machine stamping out widgets.
I’m sure the “naughty librarian” pharmaceutical rep that visits your primary care physician can account for every minute of her work day, but I wonder how much of that activity can be considered “work” defined as a physically or mentally taxing expenditure of effort.
to accept the Bell curve....that’s the problem....
Sooprize sooprize
Like everyone didnt already know this
And that whites invent virtually everything of benefit to mankind
Say it loud . . .
It is true that it is hard to quantify “work” in many of today’s jobs, but companies can start by reviewing online activity of employees. In my job some people openly socialize for hours each day; we’ve become a “post-work” economy for many.
It's not a problem, if you've kept up with your research.
Damn them Whites - doing what it takes to move up into the “White Privilege” area....how racist can they get?
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