Sunday, December 17, 2017

Now this is what I call politically incorrect

Study by liberal economists finds racial differences in how hard Americans work.....no word yet on when or even if the study will be rebutted. 

A trio of liberal economists made the mistake of doing a study on how American workers spent their working hours. Their purpose was to find evidence of racial discrimination which would explain a racial gap in pay. To their dismay, however, the economists found significant racial differences in how much time Americans spent not working while on the job, i.e., how hard one works.
The economists are:
  1. Daniel Hamermesh, Professor of Economics, University of London.
  2. Katie Genadek, Research Scientist, University of Minnesota.
  3. Michael Burda, Professor Economics, Humbodlt University of Berlin.
The economists delayed publishing their findings until after the 2016 presidential election because they didn’t want to give ammunition to what Hamermesh calls “Trump and his minions” to use “as a
propaganda piece.”
As reported by The Economist on Feb. 4, 2017, this was the study’s methodology:
  • The economists collected data from nearly 36,000 “daily diaries” — American workers’ self-reporting on how they spent their working hours, from 2003 to 2012.
  • Assuming that the self-reports were honest, the economists calculated the amount of time spent not working while on the job, e.g., eating, chatting, relaxing, surfing the net, etc.
The study found statistically significant racial and gender differences in the amount of time spent not working while on the job — even after controlling for geography, type of work, union status, and other variables:
  • Racial “minorities,” especially male minorities, spent larger portions of their workdays not actually working, i.e., are lazier:
    • Hispanics are the laziest, followed by blacks, then Asians.
    • White workers are the least lazy.
  • Gender differences;
    • Hispanic and black men are lazier than Hispanic and black women.
    • Asian women are lazier than Asian men.
    • White men and women are about the same, with the females slightly lazier than the men.
Trying to explain the racial gap, the study first considered racial discrimination as the cause — that minority workers slack off work because of discriminatory treatment by managers. But that explanation was rejected because the study found that self-employed minority workers also spent more time not working.
So the three economists finally resorted to the same “cultural differences” explanation that is used to account for persistent racial differences in IQ and SAT scores.
Denunciations of the study were swift, as well as retributions against its politically incorrect findings.
Within hours of publication, Daniel Hamermesh — an avowed “progressive” who refers to President Trump only by derogatory amusing nicknames and who had resigned from a post at the University of Texas over a state law permitting the open carrying of firearms — received vitriolic messages and was labeled a racist in an online forum popular among economists.
Ever the liberal, Hamermesh’s proposed solution to the racial work gap is not that minorities should work more, but rather that whites should work less because “Americans work too much”.
~Eowyn

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous12/17/2017

    Need a study comparing private sector employees vs city of chicago employees, but we all know the answer, What's blue and sleeps four? A city water department truck.

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  2. Anonymous12/17/2017

    I love when progressives turn on each other. Biggest bunch of hypocrites in the country.

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  3. Chance the rapper12/17/2017

    Is this a misprint? Blacks are lazy? I can’t figure out how they came up with that. They’re highly educated and take care of their homes,hoods,cars,families and work really hard for what they have. Y’all no what’s I sayn?

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