Posts by Sacha
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if I'm to believe my 17year-old son
Fortunately we're over Bebo..
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Screening is a population health activity, and individual behaviour often doesn't come into it at all - unless you count going back for more tests or treatment. Anyway, my point was about how the chances are communicated.
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Who paid Mason's legal expenses?
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Suppose the risk of problem X happening is tiny, maybe 1 in 10,000. Suppose a certain group "G" has double that risk, so 2 in 10,000. That's still a very tiny risk, but I guarantee that after a news story has circulated and the usual suspects have commented, everyone will be left with the impression that problem X is rampant and common in group G and nothing to worry about anywhere else.
Happens an awful lot with health screening programmes. People are told their chances will improve by a relative amount like 50% but not that they still have say a 249 out of 250 chance of dying of something else altogether or never having the problem at all.
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a dearth of jobs for women that paid anything like reasonable wages
Because the wage was oriented around the assumption that men were supporting a whole family including a woman to run the home, which is where she was meant to be. Except nuns and (until they got married and left their father's household) nurses, typists - and at a pinch, teachers, if they couldn't find a real man to do the job. Ah, the good old days.
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That's all true enough, Chris, but far fewer Boomers than Gen-Xers got to go to university at all.
However, most jobs didn't require that and houses and suchlike were far more affordable as a proportion of the average income. But choices in most other items like cars were limited. And so on..
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nice
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I think NZAE would have been aware of the boycott's participants, just perhaps not thinking it through enough.