Re: sample size, outliers, biases
"I get the feeling Tim vanished because..." El Ed desired to spend his editorial budget - as is his absolute right - in a different manner. No complaints from me, that's how the industry works.
Fun discussion of a recent paper:
"Children Hurt Women’s Earnings, but Not Men’s (Even in Scandinavia)
Motherhood is the biggest cause of the gender pay gap. It might take fathers to change that."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/upshot/even-in-family-friendly-scandinavia-mothers-are-paid-less.html
Actually, children seem to raise men's pay. In a sexually dimorphic species the arrival of children produces asymmetric responses across genders. Remarkable that really.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
