>At 08:48 PM 4/3/2003, Radford Neal wrote: >>Instead, we must assume that the company has a policy of paying these >>employees different amounts, based on merit. > dennis roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>no ... we most certainly cannot make this assumption in ANY >company/institution/organization ... in fact, evidence suggests just the >opposite > >take the university of toronto for example ... The University of Toronto's POLICY is certainly to pay based on merit (as well as some other considerations - eg, the need to pay more in some disciplines if we're to actually recruit anyone). I'm sure there are many, many other institutions whose POLICY is also to pay based on merit. The question is whether this policy is being followed. I think I won't comment on the rest of the above post, other that to just say I think it's absurd, because it's obvious that the poster's views on the subject of salary discrimination have made it impossible for him to understand the statistical arguments - as evidenced, for example, by his inability to understand the sentence I wrote above. Radford Neal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Radford M. Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Statistics and Dept. of Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Toronto http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~radford ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
