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Doug
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posted 11 June 2004 11:45 AM

Economists find no link between sex and money

These economists must lead terribly sheltered lives.

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josh
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posted 11 June 2004 11:46 AM

No wonder they call it, "the dismal science."

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Michelle
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posted 11 June 2004 11:50 AM

quote:
This was the first effort to study "econometric happiness equations in which sexual activity is an independent variable."
"The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations," the economists wrote.

Wow. I'm getting so hot reading this, let me tell you.

"Oh, baby, my happiness equation is quantitatively increasing! My love for you spans all the independent variables!"

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skdadl
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posted 11 June 2004 12:50 PM

quote:
"Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual partners. The typical American has sexual intercourse two to three times a month."
The report found "no statistically significant correlation" between levels of income and sexual activity.
"Money, it seems, does not buy more sexual partners."

Henry Kissinger, of course, could have told them that it is power, not money, that is the aphrodisiac. And while I should think that there are indeed statistically significant correlations between power and money, I remain unconvinced of their equivalence. *biggest winkie*

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paxamillion
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posted 11 June 2004 12:57 PM

quote:
*biggest winkie*

Hey, let's avoid size discussions, okay?

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skdadl
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posted 11 June 2004 12:59 PM

ROTFL, pax.

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paxamillion
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posted 11 June 2004 01:01 PM

*bows*

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beverly
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posted 11 June 2004 01:16 PM

quote:
"Money, it seems, does not buy more sexual partners."

No kidding. In fact, I find men with money very undesireable for some reason. My plan of marrying for money isn't working out.

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Mr. Magoo
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posted 11 June 2004 01:45 PM

I think most women agree. Back when I was single, the mere mention of a job, or my own apartment, or a credit card, was a guaranteed "mood kill".

Once I learned to say things like "Can I borrow a few bucks, just until I get some things sorted out", or "We can't go back to my place because it would wake my parents, but here's some bus fare" then suddenly I was the Mayor of Shagtown!

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beverly
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posted 11 June 2004 01:48 PM

To be the mayor of shagtown all that is required is a half broken down van.

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The Oatmeal Savage
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posted 11 June 2004 01:52 PM

http://www.chortler.com/greenspans.html

Life With The Greenspans.
"Episode One: The Breakfast Table

Wife: Good morning, honey. Did you sleep well?

Alan: Due to some encouraging trends in recent furniture production as a whole and the firming of the mattress industry in particular during Q1 and Q2 I had a moderately peaceful slumber.

Wife: What would you like for breakfast?

Alan: Through the vagaries of matutinal appetites to which I am also prone, I am struck with an exuberant predilection to lend my endorsement to the dairy sector, namely the incipient organisms which hail from the chicken.

Wife: Scrambled or over easy? "

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arborman
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posted 11 June 2004 02:37 PM

Well, thank god arborwoman is attracted to neither money nor power. Either that or she is remarkably optimistic about my future.

Some women may be attracted to men with money (and vice versa), but I know that I've never been attracted to those women.

Ability to make people snort with laughter seems to be a good indicator of sexual success.

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paxamillion
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posted 11 June 2004 02:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by kuba:
No kidding. In fact, I find men with money very undesireable for some reason. My plan of marrying for money isn't working out.

Yeah, the Hummers and cigars get to be a bit much.

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beverly
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posted 11 June 2004 02:55 PM

Now you see I think Hummers are a waste of money and horrible for the environment I could never date a man who drove one. And cigars well they are kinda stinky.

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'lance
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posted 11 June 2004 03:13 PM

I can't help thinking the whole schtick is based on a fallacious* assumption, namely the notion of sex as an "independent variable."

In my experience, such as it is, sex is dependent on a whole buncha things.

* do with that, my friends, what you will.

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skdadl
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posted 11 June 2004 03:16 PM

Ok: I'll start the list:

List of the whole buncha things that sex is dependent upon in 'lance's experience:

percolation

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beverly
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posted 11 June 2004 03:20 PM

Skdadl you just want someone to rhyme with that, me thinks.

Or maybe I just have a dirty mind.

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skdadl
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posted 11 June 2004 03:21 PM

Well, 'lance is a geologist, among other things. I was just trying to free-associate on his experience.

But you could rhyme if you really want to.

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'lance
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posted 11 June 2004 03:38 PM

quote:
percolation

Well, yes. And then, of course, there's always subduction.

(What? It's a perfectly good geological term. You could look it up).

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N.Beltov
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posted 11 June 2004 03:43 PM

Don't subduction zones typically have magma eruptions in the vicinity of volcanic cones?

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dnuttall
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posted 11 June 2004 03:54 PM

There is definately something sexual about plate tectonics, with rising plumes, eruptions, enveloped cores, isostatic rebound, and so on. Geologists dig it.

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DrConway
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posted 11 June 2004 04:02 PM

"Was that rumbling good for you, Mrs. Tectonic?"

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N.Beltov
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posted 11 June 2004 04:07 PM

Q: When is thread drift like continental drift?

A: When it slips into the subduction zone.

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Doug
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posted 11 June 2004 05:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by skdadl:
Well, 'lance is a geologist, among other things. I was just trying to free-associate on his experience.

Geologists do it over millions of years?

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Hephaestion
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posted 12 June 2004 03:07 AM

"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex. You thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it, and thought of other things if you did."

— James Baldwin

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Stephen Gordon
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posted 14 June 2004 03:53 PM

I can't believe that this was posted while I was moving and so was without internet access for a few days. The actual paper is posted on the NBER website.

My favourite line is

quote:
Our instinct is that solving the endogeneity problem - working out whether sex causes happiness or causality runs in the reverse direction - will be particularly difficult here. Future work will have to return to this issue.

I'd love to read the grant proposal.

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'lance
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posted 14 June 2004 03:56 PM

Grant proposal, hell. What's it like to get funded for doing such research instead of pursuing your inquiries in the old-fashioned... way... hey, wait a minute...

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skdadl
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posted 14 June 2004 03:58 PM

That does it.

No more quiet luncheon slurps while reading babble.

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Sports Guy
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posted 15 June 2004 04:32 PM

Oliver, I think the question most babblers want answered is, in the regression were the error terms homoskedastic or heteroskedastic?

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arborman
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posted 15 June 2004 05:32 PM

We all know that regression is between a variable and an integer, you deviant!

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