{"id":4946,"date":"2004-07-22T07:32:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T07:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2017-03-02T19:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T19:24:37","slug":"statistical-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/22\/statistical-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistical Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/thomassowell\/ts20040722.shtml\">The grand fallacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People without the slightest knowledge of economics or the slightest experience running a business will boldly assert that women are paid only 75 percent &#8212; or some other percent &#8212; of what men make for doing exactly the same work.<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. If an employer could hire four women for the price of hiring three men, why would he ever hire men at all?<\/p>\n<p>Even if the employer was the world&#8217;s biggest sexist, he could still not survive in business if his competitors were getting one-third more output from their employees for the same money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/thomassowell\/ts20040722.shtml\">here<\/a> and know the difference between real discrimination and statistical inferences based on apple and orange comparisions. This entry also posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameslandrith.com\/\">Taking The Gloves Off<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Sowell on The grand fallacy: People without the slightest knowledge of economics or the slightest experience running a business will boldly assert that women are paid only 75 percent &#8212; or some other&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,21,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-editor","category-tma-editorials-by-james-a-landrith-jr","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1hM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5429,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/5429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}