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'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Compares Women Asking for Equal Pay to Children Demanding Candy [UPDATED] {ComicsAlliance}
Mar 26th 2011 1:56PM @Kay
Even in a best case scenario, women earn about 10% less than men. That's controlling for all of the human capital differentials and for demographic characteristics. Wage differentials between men and women do still exist and are, in fact, most prominent in high status jobs.
'Dilbert' Creator Scott Adams Compares Women Asking for Equal Pay to Children Demanding Candy [UPDATED] {ComicsAlliance}
Mar 26th 2011 1:50PM @Kay
That ABC news story is presenting a pretty skewed view of the statistical evidence (and, as far as I could tell, not citing it's sources).
Sure, the significance of gender in earnings inequality has declined, when controlling for human capital and demographic characteristics. Even doing so, though, women still earn about 10% less than men in similar jobs (Massey 2008: 230, and Blau and Kahn 2004). But, as you noted, this gap gets larger as we climb the occupational hierarchy. The better educated that women are--and the higher status their positions are--the less they earn compared to men (ibid.).
Spiritual Guidance: Understanding the recent priest changes {WoW}
Feb 21st 2011 5:25PM I really don't understand this position. I'm not a top-of-the-game player. But, I've managed to complete every heroic in well below ilvl 347 gear. And I've had a lot more fun doing it than in Wrath. Heroics are certainly more difficult, but they are not BC hard.
Some of this can be attributed to guild runs, certainly. I have a group of players that I play with regularly, but again, none of us are top-end players. We're all average and enjoying the challenge in Cataclysm content.
Scattered Shots: Grandpappy Frostheim on Ghostcrawler {WoW}
Nov 15th 2010 5:41PM You're really bad at math.
So, I'm going with troll. If not, then I suggest you look into the pricing of wow in other markets, any article--either academic or otherwise--about increasing the number of programmers and hoping for more productivity, and how frequently any class in wow has actually been "unplayable".
Updated World of Warcraft Patch 3.1.2 PTR Patch Notes {WoW}
May 12th 2009 10:22AM Ok, I don't play PVP but I'm calling BS on that. My gear is not great, but it's a mix of ilevel 200, 213 and 219 epics. I have two trinkets that proc additional attack power (mirror of truth and the pyrite spell infuser). With both of those trinkets up, my seal of blood procs for, at most, 7k. This is with the Chaotic Skyflare meta. To get a 19K crit, you would need over 10 thousand attack power--that's just not going to happen, no matter your gear.
Nielsen: WoW is most played core game by 25-54 females {WoW}
Apr 9th 2009 7:45PM There are 1.8 million people playing WoW in North America, and 11 million worldwide. Nielsen isn't collected data or on, or drawing conclusions about the rest of the world.
Haven't read up on their methodology, but am sure they're using something approximating a stratified random sample. Therefore, a relatively small sample size as compared to the size of the total population does not mean their results are incorrect.
