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...reasoning—that women don’t want careers anyway—draws mainly on opinion polling and anecdotal evidence: “Ask a group of mothers if they would continue to work full-time if they didn’t have to and the answer will overwhelmingly come back ‘No!’,” she writes. Despite the fact that this statement is a near truism (wouldn’t the majority of people cut back on work if their monetary circumstances permitted?), Basham proceeds to cite additional surveys proving that...
...However, given the notorious inaccuracy of polling data, the answer is not nearly so simple. The wording and framing of the survey question can have a decisive impact on the results, so much so that alternative polls demonstrate the exact opposite of Basham’s findings: namely, that the majority of high-achieving males would prefer to stay at home if money allowed and that most mothers married to men with annual earnings of over $120,000 remain in the workforce, in spite of their financial freedom. More damagingly, Basham confuses the distinction between correlation and causation: women?...
...seven posts altogether,” Donato said. “You got the sense that that was the way it was going, especially early on in the night when we hit two or three in the first period. I don’t know if I have the answer for how we could’ve solved...
...other end of the floor, Yale had no answer for Tay. The senior ran the show, dishing crowd-pleasing passes when she wasn’t putting the ball in the basket herself. Tay started the game 7-for-7, finishing the period with 20 points...
...Lieberman, the independent junior Senator who left the Democratic Party after losing his primary race and then crossed what was left of his party lines to endorse John McCain for President. "It's a legitimate question to ask; I'm certainly aware of [the polls]," Dodd says. "But my answer to it is: do your work. And look, that stuff last fall was terribly unpopular - the banking things, the assistance to the automobile institutions. We have never seen mail or e-mails so hostile to those ideas ... But it was the right thing...