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To: LindyBill who started this subject7/24/2004 3:50:12 AM
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Statistical Differences, Discrimination, and Economics
By Brett on Lawsuits
Always Low Prices -- Always. blog

Thomas Sowell's most recent columns about the Wal-Mart discrimination charges examine the underlying notion that statistical differences indicate discrimination.

Sowell does a bang up job of making complex issues easy to understand. This one is no different.

Here's just one nugget from part one.:

People without the slightest knowledge of economics or the slightest experience running a business will boldly assert that women are paid only 75 percent -- or some other percent -- of what men make for doing exactly the same work.
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?
Even if the employer was the world'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.
Interesting, considering that Wal-Mart is not just surviving, but thriving.

In part two., Sowell continues:

The sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart raises questions with implications that reach far beyond this one retail giant. Too many people in the media, in academia, and even in courts of law, act as if numbers plus a preconception equals proof. The preconception is that various groups -- by race, sex, or whatever -- would be evenly represented in occupations or institutions if it were not for discrimination.

Check out the full columns for a great read.


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