Which Part of a Woman is 23% less than a Man?

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145. What "experts"?

Who are they and where did they goto school?

Not that that really matters.

Funny thing about "experts". AEI has them, CATO has them, Heritage has them.

Yet most liberals are convinced that the "experts" from those groups are full of crap.

And they are right to think so.

But how dare we think we are smarter than some store-bought "experts"?

That is the thing about experts - they get hired by an advocacy group, not to ferret out the truth, but to come up with statistics to convince others to support the advocacy group. They are "hired guns" far more than they are seekers of the truth.

Me, I have about the same education that they do - an MA in economics, but nobody is paying me to sell their magic potion. I have no dog in the hunt.

However, you should probably be aware of the words of the great economist Joan Robinson "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists." http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Robinson

Ever heard of the Coen brothers? I took a course in Welfare Economics from their dad, and he wrote a letter of recommendation for me to attend graduate school.

As for evidence. I supplied that. It is called logic.

I explained, in great prolix detail how one of the sources you quoted, comparing median income of men and women one year out of college was NOT any sort of proof of discrimination. I listed a number of other factors that could account for pay differences.

Your only response to logic - to argue from authority. The "experts" have spoken.

But here I am, imagining that you are a reasoning human being, when you have already amply demonstrated that you are not.

What a waste of a tank of gas.