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Posted by: Roger on 10/07/2010Fourth Finger May Show If You Have What It Takes: Amity Shlaes
Posted by: Roger on 8/26/2009
Saw this on Bloomberg today.
Commentary by Amity Shlaes
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The pay gap between women and men is again in the news. Run the numbers from a July 1 report of White House salaries and you’ll find that the average female staffer in the White House earns $9,168 less than a male.
This gap is a tad embarrassing for President Barack Obama and his progressive Democratic Party, which tends to argue it is nurture, and not nature, that causes such disparities. After all, Obama campaigned on a promise to help women by doing all that is politically possible to make their status equal to that of men. Hiring should be the easy part.
The West Wing gap suggests that cultural prejudices are so deeply ingrained that even the Obama team can’t suppress them. Isn’t it always that the hottest jobs -- White House or hedge fund -- go to men even when the women deserve them?
But maybe the White House didn’t fail. Or maybe it should have done its personnel selection differently, with a ruler to measure the fourth digit of job candidates’ hands.
That at least would be the conclusion to draw from a study published this week by Paola Sapienza of Northwestern University and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago. Attentive readers will note I’ve cited this pair before. To me they are doing the most interesting work in academic economics.
Their latest finding: high-testosterone job candidates tend to seek out riskier, higher return work, while those with lower levels gravitate toward stabler, lower profile, lower-return employment.
Volvos, Race-Cars
To arrive at this determination Sapienza and Zingales noted holders of Masters in Business Administration degrees take jobs with a range of risk. There are Volvo jobs -- stable, reliable, but unsexy. And there are race-car jobs -- jobs in finance, which pay 2.8 times more.
These race-car jobs can also wipe out and deliver distinctly poor pay. The standard deviation in salaries in the finance field is two times as large as in the other positions.
Then Sapienza and Zingales asked 500 MBA students to play games that reveal their willingness to take risks. Next, they sought to capture students’ lifetime exposure to testosterone, a hormone that appears in both sexes, although normally in greater concentration in men. The professors determined subjects’hormone levels through saliva tests and by measures that indicated the rate of exposure to testosterone that the subject experienced in utero.
These included the now-famous digit measure in which the fourth finger of both males and females exposed to more testosterone in the womb tends to be longer than the second, or index finger. Finally, after the students graduated, the professors rated their jobs for riskiness.
Hunger for Risk
Some of the Sapienza-Zingales findings weren’t surprising, especially given other such work in the past. The higher testosterone subjects were less risk averse on tests and also landed the riskier jobs. Such data are what motivate Democrats to endorse anti-pay gap legislation.
What was interesting though was that it wasn’t the subjects’ gender, per se, that was relevant. It was testosterone.
In men, variations in levels of testosterone mattered, but less than in women. AND what we might call High-Test women, or females whose testosterone exposure was elevated relative to other females, were as likely as males to go for, and get, those race-car finance jobs.
When it came to determining whether a female student would go into the finance field, it appeared to matter more whether a woman was being exposed to testosterone now (the saliva test) than whether she had been exposed to testosterone in utero (the finger test).
Nurture Matters
This suggests a couple things. The first is that nurture may indeed matter, just as Democrats argue. The fact that men’s choices seemed less sensitive to testosterone exposure suggests that their identity as males, which their cultural and personal experience helps to shape, may have been a factor.
The second is that nature matters too and the finding that the timing of testosterone exposure, in addition to the level, can influence career choices.
Some might argue that comparing MBA jobs with White House jobs is a stretch. But the positions are similar in the scale of their rewards. MBA jobs pay maximum in dollar currency. The words “White House” on the resume are worth millions in another currency, the currency of politics, which is eventually redeemable in old-fashioned dollars.
Former President Bill Clinton, whose second and fourth fingers look to the casual eye to be about the same length, has demonstrated that through speaking fees.
Boosting Pay
What’s the takeaway? There are the flippant ones: Women who long for high-test jobs might do better to go herbal and hunt for supplements that allege to increase endogenous testosterone. They might start popping Estratest pills, a hormone therapy that includes testosterone, than making a donation in support of the Democrat-backed Employee Free Choice Act, union-sponsored legislation that the AFL-CIO promotes with the promise that it will boost pay for women.
There are also more general points: personal experience (nurture, legislation) seems to matter for males. But political efforts to narrow the pay gap may sometimes be futile for females if the chemicals aren’t calibrated. It all suggests a high- est review of assumptions about gender is in order.
(Amity Shlaes, author of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.)
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Commentary by Amity Shlaes
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The pay gap between women and men is again in the news. Run the numbers from a July 1 report of White House salaries and you’ll find that the average female staffer in the White House earns $9,168 less than a male.
This gap is a tad embarrassing for President Barack Obama and his progressive Democratic Party, which tends to argue it is nurture, and not nature, that causes such disparities. After all, Obama campaigned on a promise to help women by doing all that is politically possible to make their status equal to that of men. Hiring should be the easy part.
The West Wing gap suggests that cultural prejudices are so deeply ingrained that even the Obama team can’t suppress them. Isn’t it always that the hottest jobs -- White House or hedge fund -- go to men even when the women deserve them?
But maybe the White House didn’t fail. Or maybe it should have done its personnel selection differently, with a ruler to measure the fourth digit of job candidates’ hands.
That at least would be the conclusion to draw from a study published this week by Paola Sapienza of Northwestern University and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago. Attentive readers will note I’ve cited this pair before. To me they are doing the most interesting work in academic economics.
Their latest finding: high-testosterone job candidates tend to seek out riskier, higher return work, while those with lower levels gravitate toward stabler, lower profile, lower-return employment.
To arrive at this determination Sapienza and Zingales noted holders of Masters in Business Administration degrees take jobs with a range of risk. There are Volvo jobs -- stable, reliable, but unsexy. And there are race-car jobs -- jobs in finance, which pay 2.8 times more.
These race-car jobs can also wipe out and deliver distinctly poor pay. The standard deviation in salaries in the finance field is two times as large as in the other positions.
Then Sapienza and Zingales asked 500 MBA students to play games that reveal their willingness to take risks. Next, they sought to capture students’ lifetime exposure to testosterone, a hormone that appears in both sexes, although normally in greater concentration in men. The professors determined subjects’hormone levels through saliva tests and by measures that indicated the rate of exposure to testosterone that the subject experienced in utero.
These included the now-famous digit measure in which the fourth finger of both males and females exposed to more testosterone in the womb tends to be longer than the second, or index finger. Finally, after the students graduated, the professors rated their jobs for riskiness.
Some of the Sapienza-Zingales findings weren’t surprising, especially given other such work in the past. The higher testosterone subjects were less risk averse on tests and also landed the riskier jobs. Such data are what motivate Democrats to endorse anti-pay gap legislation.
What was interesting though was that it wasn’t the subjects’ gender, per se, that was relevant. It was testosterone.
In men, variations in levels of testosterone mattered, but less than in women. AND what we might call High-Test women, or females whose testosterone exposure was elevated relative to other females, were as likely as males to go for, and get, those race-car finance jobs.
When it came to determining whether a female student would go into the finance field, it appeared to matter more whether a woman was being exposed to testosterone now (the saliva test) than whether she had been exposed to testosterone in utero (the finger test).
This suggests a couple things. The first is that nurture may indeed matter, just as Democrats argue. The fact that men’s choices seemed less sensitive to testosterone exposure suggests that their identity as males, which their cultural and personal experience helps to shape, may have been a factor.
The second is that nature matters too and the finding that the timing of testosterone exposure, in addition to the level, can influence career choices.
Some might argue that comparing MBA jobs with White House jobs is a stretch. But the positions are similar in the scale of their rewards. MBA jobs pay maximum in dollar currency. The words “White House” on the resume are worth millions in another currency, the currency of politics, which is eventually redeemable in old-fashioned dollars.
Former President Bill Clinton, whose second and fourth fingers look to the casual eye to be about the same length, has demonstrated that through speaking fees.
What’s the takeaway? There are the flippant ones: Women who long for high-test jobs might do better to go herbal and hunt for supplements that allege to increase endogenous testosterone. They might start popping Estratest pills, a hormone therapy that includes testosterone, than making a donation in support of the Democrat-backed Employee Free Choice Act, union-sponsored legislation that the AFL-CIO promotes with the promise that it will boost pay for women.
There are also more general points: personal experience (nurture, legislation) seems to matter for males. But political efforts to narrow the pay gap may sometimes be futile for females if the chemicals aren’t calibrated. It all suggests a high- est review of assumptions about gender is in order.
(Amity Shlaes, author of “The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression” is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are her own.)
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The business is never enough and the boss is never satisfied
Posted by: Roger on 8/14/2009
The business is never enough and the boss is never satisfied.
A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back again. So, he goes over to the dog and notices it has a note in its mouth.
He takes the note and it reads "Can I have 12 sausages and a leg of lamb, please? The dog has money in its mouth, as well."
The butcher looks inside and, lo and behold, there is a ten dollar note there. So he takes the money and puts the sausages and lamb in a bag, placing it in the dog's mouth. The butcher is so impressed, and since it's about closing time, he decides to shut the shop and follow the dog.
So off he goes. The dog is walking down the street, when it comes to a level crossing; the dog puts down the bag, jumps up and presses the button. Then it waits patiently, bag in mouth, for the lights to turn. They do, and it walks across the road, with the butcher following him all the way.
The dog then comes to a bus stop, and starts looking at the timetable. The butcher is in awe as the dog stops a bus by pulling its left leg up and gets in it. The butcher follows the dog into the bus. The dog then shows a ticket which is tied to its belt to the bus conductor. The butcher is nearly fainting at this sight, so are the other passengers in the bus. The dog then sits near the driver's seat looking outside. As soon as the stop is in sight, the dog stands and wags its tail to inform the conductor. Then, without waiting for the bus to stop completely, it jumps out of the bus and runs to a house very close to the stop.
It opens the big Iron Gate and rushes inside towards the door. As it approaches the wooden door, the dog suddenly changes its mind and heads towards the garden. It goes to the window, and beats its head against it several times, walks back, jumps off, and waits at the door. The butcher watches as a big guy opens the door, and starts abusing the dog, kicking him and punching him, and swearing at him. The butcher surprised with this, runs up, and stops the guy.
"What in heaven's name are you doing? The dog is a genius. He could be on TV, for the life of me! "To which the guy responds: "You call this clever? This is the second time this week that this stupid dog's forgotten his key."
Moral of the story.....
You may continue to exceed onlookers expectations but shall always fall short of the boss' expectations.
It's a dog's life after all.....
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A butcher watching over his shop is really surprised when he sees a dog coming inside the shop. He shoos him away. But later, the dog is back again. So, he goes over to the dog and notices it has a note in its mouth.
He takes the note and it reads "Can I have 12 sausages and a leg of lamb, please? The dog has money in its mouth, as well."
The butcher looks inside and, lo and behold, there is a ten dollar note there. So he takes the money and puts the sausages and lamb in a bag, placing it in the dog's mouth. The butcher is so impressed, and since it's about closing time, he decides to shut the shop and follow the dog.
So off he goes. The dog is walking down the street, when it comes to a level crossing; the dog puts down the bag, jumps up and presses the button. Then it waits patiently, bag in mouth, for the lights to turn. They do, and it walks across the road, with the butcher following him all the way.
The dog then comes to a bus stop, and starts looking at the timetable. The butcher is in awe as the dog stops a bus by pulling its left leg up and gets in it. The butcher follows the dog into the bus. The dog then shows a ticket which is tied to its belt to the bus conductor. The butcher is nearly fainting at this sight, so are the other passengers in the bus. The dog then sits near the driver's seat looking outside. As soon as the stop is in sight, the dog stands and wags its tail to inform the conductor. Then, without waiting for the bus to stop completely, it jumps out of the bus and runs to a house very close to the stop.
It opens the big Iron Gate and rushes inside towards the door. As it approaches the wooden door, the dog suddenly changes its mind and heads towards the garden. It goes to the window, and beats its head against it several times, walks back, jumps off, and waits at the door. The butcher watches as a big guy opens the door, and starts abusing the dog, kicking him and punching him, and swearing at him. The butcher surprised with this, runs up, and stops the guy.
"What in heaven's name are you doing? The dog is a genius. He could be on TV, for the life of me! "To which the guy responds: "You call this clever? This is the second time this week that this stupid dog's forgotten his key."
Moral of the story.....
You may continue to exceed onlookers expectations but shall always fall short of the boss' expectations.
It's a dog's life after all.....
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Funny! Gary's Weather Forecasting Stone
Posted by: Roger on 7/14/2009
This must be the most traditional way to forcaste weather.
Stone is Wet: Rain
Stone is Dry: Not Raining
Shadow on Ground: Sunny
White on Top: Snowing
Can't see stone: foggy
Swinging Stone: Windy
Stone Jumping Up and Down: Earthquake
Stone Gone: Tornado
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Sexy ad in Sainsbury's Magazine banned
Posted by: Roger on 7/06/2009
An advertisement in Sainsbury's Magazine depicting a nun and a priest in a sexualised pose - in which the priest is partially clothed and about to give in to the temptation of kissing the nun - has been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA). The advertisement was for ice cream.
The company who manufacture the ice cream, Gelato Italiano, said the picture was meant as a "light-hearted, tongue in cheek portrayal" that they felt contained nothing that would cause "serious or widespread offence".
But readers of Sainsbury's magazine disagreed, and the ASA upheld their views, saying that the ad was particularly liable to give offence to those in "religious vocation", and particularly to Catholic believers. The image of the priest's exposed rippling torso and his rosary resting upon it proved a little too incongruous with those who respect the sanctity of religious vocation.
The publishers of the advertisement have apologised and have vowed not to use the ad again.
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Funny! He was a very good son!
Posted by: Roger on 6/18/2009
Got the email today. Very Funny!!!
This was an awfully thougtful son concerning his Father, wasn't he?
An old Italian lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden, but it was very difficult work, as the ground was hard. His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:
Dear Vincent:
I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won't be able to plant! my tomato garden this year. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over? I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.
Love, Papa
A few days later he received a letter from his son.
Dear Pop:
Don't dig up that garden. That's where the bodies are buried.
Love,
Vinnie
At 4 a.m. the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.
Dear Pop:
Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That's the best I could do under the circumstances. Love you,
Vinnie
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What should the Rupee symbol look like?
Posted by: Roger on 4/08/2009
Saw this on IndiaTimes. Cast your vote and Enjoy.
The Government of India wants your help. It has invited the public to suggest a symbol for the Rupee. Just as the Dollar is universally denoted by $‚ the government thinks the Rupee should also have its own unique symbol that captures a sense of India’s history and culture.Listed below are 19 suggestions from ET’s team of designers. Please vote for the one you find best. ET will present all these symbols ‚ along with the ET viewers’ preference‚ to the Ministry of Finance . And‚ if you don t like these and have a symbol of your own to offer, mail it to us at editoret@indiatimes.co.in So hone your design skills and choose the right symbol for the Rupee.
For more details, please see "Ropee Symbol"
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The Government of India wants your help. It has invited the public to suggest a symbol for the Rupee. Just as the Dollar is universally denoted by $‚ the government thinks the Rupee should also have its own unique symbol that captures a sense of India’s history and culture.Listed below are 19 suggestions from ET’s team of designers. Please vote for the one you find best. ET will present all these symbols ‚ along with the ET viewers’ preference‚ to the Ministry of Finance . And‚ if you don t like these and have a symbol of your own to offer, mail it to us at editoret@indiatimes.co.in So hone your design skills and choose the right symbol for the Rupee.
For more details, please see "Ropee Symbol"
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Bernard Madoff doll sold with hammer
Posted by: Roger on 2/19/2009
Saw this on Telegraph.co.uk today. A doll of the financier Bernard Madoff has gone on sale complete with its own hammer to smash it.
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Bernard Madoff doll: Its Australian creator, Graeme Warring, said that it was inspired by the experience of a friend Photo: GETTY
The Smash-Me Bernie action figure holds a pitchfork and is dressed in a red devil's suit, and comes with a gold hammer so that investors in his doomed scheme can take symbolic revenge on the $100 (£70) doll for losing out in Mr Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme.
Its Australian creator, Graeme Warring, who unveiled the doll at the New York Toy Fair this week, said that it was inspired by the experience of a friend had lost money in Mr Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud.
"He lost quite a bit of money and he was pretty grumpy about the whole thing," said Mr Warring.
"So I made him this little action figure of Bernie Madoff ... I put a hammer in the box and I said, 'Listen, when you get this thing, just smash it to pieces - it'll make you feel better, and then go bury it in the backyard and put it behind you'.
"So he did it, thought it was terrifically funny, and then he started telling some of his mates about it and before you know it, everyone's started to order these things."
The 70-year-old financier and former chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange, who is under house arrest in Manhattan and is yet to make a plea, faces up to 20 years in prison as well as a substantial fine if he is convicted.
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Funny Ad - Nikon S60 Camera Face Detection
Posted by: Roger on 12/16/2008
Nikon S60 has a very powerful face detection feature that detects up to 12 faces in the image!!!
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Very Funny...It's Joke from Jay Leno
Posted by: Roger on 12/12/2008- The problem with investment bank balance sheet is that on the left side nothing's right and on the right side nothing's left.
- I want to warn people from Nigeria who might be watching our show, if you get any emails from Washington asking for money, it's a scam. Don't fall for it - Jay Leno
- Bush was asked about the credit crunch. He said it was his favourite candy bar - Jay Leno
- The rescue bill was about 450 pages. President Bush's copy is even thicker. They had to include pictures - Jay Leno
- President Bush's response was to meet some small business owners in San Antonio last week. The small business owners are General Motors, General Electric and Century 21 - Jay Leno
- What worries me most about the credit crunch, is that if one of my cheques is returned stamped 'insufficient funds'. I won't know whether that refers to mine or the bank's
- Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are ?? Wall Street is now being called Wal Mart Street - Jay Leno
- The US has made a new weapon that destroys people but keeps the building standing,. Its called the stock market - Jay Leno
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