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Comment Re:94%, really? (Score 1) 710

The article is kind of all over the place. While it provides no proof that less hours worked means a better economy, it quote some studies that find taking more vacation hours boost productivity and lowers turnover. But to quote The Office:

Jan: How would a movie increase productivity, Michael? How on earth would it do that?
Michael Scott: People work faster after.
Jan: Magically.
Michael Scott: No. They have to, to make up for the time they lost watching the movie.

Comment Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? (Score 1) 435

As a Chinese American, and not that I can speak for all but I think most share my experience, growing up without English speaking parents meant I wasn't exactly taught eloquence or English social convention. Yet other Asian Americans and I are 3 times over-represented in the STEM fields.

And can you tell me with a straight face that tech workers are hired for their interpersonal skills?

Comment Re:Most qualified and motivated candidates? (Score 1) 435

I know I can't for minorities, especially since despite making up 6% of the US population, Asian Americans make up 30% of Google's employees. And that despite making up 71% of the US population, "whites" only make up 61% of Google's employees. In general STEM fields, Asian Americans make up 15% while whites make up 70%.

My conclusion is that certain races are attracted to different fields, Asians moreso to tech, whites are neutral, and other races less so to tech, and that passion contributes to their qualifications. My social commentary is that judging a field by their attractiveness to certain races trivializes the effort those workers put in to go into that line of work, when social pressure prioritizes an innate and unchangeable trait over life choices.

Comment Well (Score 1) 1040

We could sit here and just theorize about what's going to happen but...this is a rare clear cut chance to see the effects of an above estimated living wage minimum wage. Who else is excited? Maybe we can learn from what goes wrong and apply a modified technique to cities with similar demographics?

We're all STEM workers here. Where's the excitement?

Submission + - 'Female' Hurricanes Are Deadlier (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Hurricane names help to make public safety messages memorable, but new research shows that the choice of name may influence how people react to evacuation orders. Although the World Meteorological Organization assigns the storms alternating male and female names, historical records show that those with more feminine names had higher death tolls. Could people be avoiding evacuation because they assume that female-named storms will be gentler? Researchers tested this idea with written scenarios that described an upcoming storm and asked respondents how dangerous they expected the storm to be and whether they would follow a voluntary evacuation order. No matter which names they used—Victor/Victoria, Christopher/Christine, or selections from the upcoming hurricane name lists—respondents who read about male-named hurricanes judged them as riskier and said they would be more likely to evacuate than people who read about hurricanes with female names.

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