White male doctors earn 35 percent more than black male doctors

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5. They also probably didn't adjust properly for hours worked.

Sounds like they just divided income by hours. So if you work fewer hours, you should make less money.

On the other hand, take two pediatricians my son had as a child. Both women. One worked all the time. She was there when needed, and put in more than 40 hours/week. The other worked part-time because, as she put it, her first commitment was to her daughter.

Which do you think would be promoted, given additional bonuses, etc? Even if they both started at the same hourly wage, the one who worked full time and was a full member of the team would get advanced. Yeah. One was made a partner of the practice, the other continued part-time as a contact employee.

Statistically speaking, men fit the "full time plus as needed" model more than women.

(Still, geography was the first thing that came to mind. Another was length of time in the field, given admission trends over the last 20 years in medical schools. An additional one is self-limiting. I've known many students whose attitude was that things were against them, so why even try; or they got to a decent spot, why push any harder? Most of these were from low SES households, often black or Latino.)

The article gives correlation and we immediately supply causation. Bad cognitive faculties, bad!