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Re: Salaries of US Scientists Drop

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:04
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In article <bpqq5u$r7e$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>,
   Roland Franzius <roland.franzius@uos.de> wrote:
>jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In article <e58d56ae.0311230725.5143a4a0@posting.google.com>,
>>    whopkins@csd.uwm.edu (Alfred Einstead) wrote:
>> 
>>>jspub2003@yahoo.com (jsp) wrote:
>>>
>>>>During the past two years, the salaries of 
>>>>most scientists including physicists have decreased significantly.  
>>>
>>>Too much supply, not enough demand.
>> 
>> 
>> How am I supposed to read this datum?  1.  Every employed scientist
>> has received a pay cut.  2.  Starting salaries have decreased; but
>> starting salaries for what?  3.  The salaries of jobs transforming
>> dirt into gold are averaged in with the medical biochem jobs causing
>> the average for biochem to drop and the average for dirt-to-gold
>> to rise?
>
>Consider the averaged effect made up by ten physicists with salaries of 
>10^6$/a fired or retired.

Then it's a sly statistic engineered to have the reader come
to an incorrect solution so that [what?] they vote for Democrats
next year?  What is the hidden agenda behind the claim?

/BAH


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Subject: Re: Salaries of US Scientists Drop
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