Comments on: On being a “career girl” http://electrolicious.com/2006/08/on_being_a_career_gi Daily affirmations of a word mercenary Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:57:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Morphea http://electrolicious.com/2006/08/on_being_a_career_gi#comment-6939 Morphea Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:03:35 +0000 #comment-6939 Quite right, Lori. What a funny man. I liked the woman's rebuttal, mostly, though I hate being called a 'gal'. Statistics, feh. Sarah (as a social scientist), are statistics really THAT IMPORTANT? Seriously, every other article quotes them quite terribly seriously. Ariel - I found your blog via Neb and JCarwen. Nice to meet'cha. Cerise Quite right, Lori. What a funny man. I liked the woman’s rebuttal, mostly, though I hate being called a ‘gal’.

Statistics, feh. Sarah (as a social scientist), are statistics really THAT IMPORTANT? Seriously, every other article quotes them quite terribly seriously.

Ariel - I found your blog via Neb and JCarwen. Nice to meet’cha.

Cerise

]]> By: Lori http://electrolicious.com/2006/08/on_being_a_career_gi#comment-6940 Lori Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:05:28 +0000 #comment-6940 Wow, thanks for the link to this! The original article is back up, along with a rebuttal from a female editor at Forbes. It's hard to pick a favorite among all the idiotic statements in the original article, but the last paragraph, ironically, sums it up best: "A word of caution, though: As with any social scientific study, it's important not to confuse correlation with causation. In other words, just because married folks are healthier than single people, it doesn't mean that marriage is causing the health gains." Dude, you just spent THE ENTIRE ARTICLE confusing correlation with causation! Wow, thanks for the link to this! The original article is back up, along with a rebuttal from a female editor at Forbes. It’s hard to pick a favorite among all the idiotic statements in the original article, but the last paragraph, ironically, sums it up best: “A word of caution, though: As with any social scientific study, it’s important not to confuse correlation with causation. In other words, just because married folks are healthier than single people, it doesn’t mean that marriage is causing the health gains.” Dude, you just spent THE ENTIRE ARTICLE confusing correlation with causation!

]]> By: Sarah http://electrolicious.com/2006/08/on_being_a_career_gi#comment-6941 Sarah Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:42:26 +0000 #comment-6941 as a social scientist, that article made me want to repeatedly bang my head against something very, very hard. as an unemployed career woman (read: abd grad student), it made me want to cry. as a social scientist, that article made me want to repeatedly bang my head against something very, very hard.

as an unemployed career woman (read: abd grad student), it made me want to cry.

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