University/Grad school usefulness

[Boris Godunov]

I've been toying with the idea of going to grad school and getting an MBA, but I am not persuaded as to its usefulness for increasing my salary, since I'm already making more than most people with just undergrad degrees probably make.

[Asher]

Fact: Gay men have higher incomes than straights on average.

[Kuciwalker]

I'm nearly certain that whatever study you're thinking of doesn't actually show that.

[Drake Tungsten]

I don't see why gays wouldn't make more than straights, on average. The breeders have issues that employers don't have to worry about with the majority of gays.

[Jon Miller]

Women?

JM

[Kuciwalker]

I don't see why gays wouldn't make more than straights, on average. The breeders have issues that employers don't have to worry about with the majority of gays.

I was very careful to avoid saying I thought it was false. I just doubt that the evidence he has actually supports his conclusion.

[Drake Tungsten]

Women?

Children.

[Jon Miller]

They are related.

JM

[Drake Tungsten]

I do know how babies are born, JM.

That being said, "women" isn't an acceptable answer unless you deny the existence of lesbians.

[Asher]

I'm nearly certain that whatever study you're thinking of doesn't actually show that.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0254/is_n4_v54/ai_17599602/

Two large national surveys, which break down respondents into "gays" and "straights," have been published. In 1986, The San Francisco Examiner, by random digit dialing, obtained a national sample of 400 gay men and lesbians. In 1992, The New York Times, in an exit poll of presidential voters, asked whether respondents were gay or bisexual. The Examiner survey found that gay men had a median income of $29,129 whereas non-gay male household heads had an income of $24,550. The New York Times survey, on the other hand, appears to show gays with lower incomes (Cronin, 1993). The New York Times comparison is misleading, however, because it uses "family income" although only a handful of gay men are married. If we make the reasonable assumption that "family income" and "personal income" are the same for most gay men, we can use census data to make a more valid comparison. This shows that gay men are more likely to have higher incomes than are heterosexual men.

[Jon Miller]

It makes sense, it costs a lot to have a family. Males spend some of that, even if they don't spend as much as women.

And I mean opportunity costs, not just part of income generated.

By the way, I look forward to gay men (and women) marrying their SOs and adopting children and contributing to society by having a family as well.

JM

[Boris Godunov]

Family expenses aren't relevant, we're talking actual income, not disposable income.

Where family comes into it is that gay men and women might be less likely to be hindered in their professional careers by family, so they are more likely to take that big promotion with more money but requires them to move across the country. A straight person with a family might be less likely to do so if they have to uproot their kids.

[Kuciwalker]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...4/ai_17599602/

And as it turns out, I was right.

[Provost Harrison]

Education broadens the mind and all that and shouldn't just be done for the purposes of research...seems a shame that by now I have forgotten so much, but in terms of the work I do now I don't think it has helped me that much, continuous experience in work has helped me in that respect. Of course I don't work any more in the field I was educated and is only very tenuously connected.

[Asher]

And as it turns out, I was right.

No.

And if you are going to say that these comments are not congruent, I'm going to personally fly down to Pittsburgh and *****slap you:

Gay men have higher incomes than straights on average.

This shows that gay men are more likely to have higher incomes than are heterosexual men.