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dmitryminkovsky | 3 years ago

> That translates to 1.5 hours less time on the job each workweek, or a 3% reduction in hours.

A search for “statistically significant” yielded no results. So why am I not to assume, especially given the source, that this is more of that “Americans are lazier and less productive” thing that plays out daily in right-leaning media?

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kodah|3 years ago

Marc Benioff is a progressive and has been quoted many times saying the same thing about his own workers.

dmitryminkovsky|3 years ago

But statistical significance? I like anecdotes as much as the next person, but we’re talking “truth” and stuff here, right? This paper is out to critically inform me, right?

luckylion|3 years ago

Yeah, those right-leaning media companies and their constant bashing of the checks notes top 10% earners.

pessimizer|3 years ago

There's nothing that the right likes more than bashing lazy elites.

dmitryminkovsky|3 years ago

Anything to stoke the “culture war”

lupire|3 years ago

The source being WashU economists? Is that a right-wing think tank?

dmitryminkovsky|3 years ago

Well, do they say these numbers are statistically significant?