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- Comment on Narcissistic leaders more likely to oppose remote work, new research suggests 1 week ago:
- Comment on Harvard study links GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to a 27-point jump in women's employment — bigger than a college degree gap 1 week ago:
This headline and article misrepresent the study’s findings, and overstate the evidence for its conclusions. From the abstract, by the study’s actual author:
Single women’s marriage/cohabitation rates rise by 29 percentage points and employment among baseline non-employed women rises 27 percentage points after six or more quarters. Existing partnerships do not dissolve, and already-employed women show no upward job mobility. The pattern suggests that part of the female obesity penalty operates at new-match formation rather than only through health or incumbent productivity.
As the overwhelming majority of women in the labor force are actually employed, an effect that is seen only on the unemployed may not be appropriate to extrapolate across the entire population.
In another longitudinal study, also published by the NBER, reports a slight trend that already-employed women have a slight drop in employment when going on GLP-1s, and when evaluated over the entire population, the study’s authors conclude that GLP-1s do not have a meaningful effect on employment rates.
Overall, the evidence is much, much weaker than the article’s tone suggests.
- Comment on Oh lord yes 1 month ago:
A lot of calorie expenditure is determined by hormones, and for a typical person, resting metabolism is a significant percentage of total calorie burn.
Some people respond poorly to dietary interventions because they end up with lower resting metabolic rate. Sometimes it shows up in the form of a person who is always feeling cold or exhausted.
Others have high stress hormones, which throw all sorts of metabolic loops out of wack.
And other hormones affect appetite or satiety after eating, so the biological disadvantage (whether genetic or environmental or both) sometimes comes in the form of greater difficulty with portion control or willpower compared to others. That’s not a direct effect on calories in versus calories out, but it does have an indirect effect on overall success with a weight loss program, and it’s grounded in an actual physical/physiological/biological difference between individuals.
