Timeline for Do women take more sick days than men?
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| S Oct 15, 2014 at 2:12 | history | suggested | sashkello | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 22:06 | answer | added | Franck Dernoncourt | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 16:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSkeptic/status/521697090117050368 | ||
| Oct 13, 2014 at 15:42 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | "Does the pattern of women taking more sick days than men generalize beyond their sample?" - So, if I cite studies that show Swedish women in 1985 took more sick leave than men, would that be sufficient to answer the question? It feels like cheating somehow. There has been extensive research (esp in Scandinavia?) considering lots of factors - e.g. the women/men sick leave ratio climbs when heavy lifting is involved or when it is a male-dominated field. There are many such factors that affect the rates. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 15:29 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | I suspected that the Daily Telegraph had mangled the results. I found the original media release that the Daily Telegraph churnalised - it has the same weird numbers, and the same lack of reference to the original study. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 15:22 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cited more of the article to give some context - e.g. that it was a survey.
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| Oct 13, 2014 at 13:57 | comment | added | Christian | @raptortech97 : Yes, those numbers seem wrong. On the other hand the 141 are likely a result of a rounding error of a math illiterate person. Three and a halve days doesn't have 3 digits of precision... Still I would like to have an answer that focuses on the broader claim. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 13:49 | comment | added | raptortech97 | Maybe I'm not understanding the statistics right, but if seems like if the average for men was so close to the average for everybody, and the average for women was so far off, that would imply there are a tiny number of women in the workplace - something like 1 for every 50 men | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 13:38 | comment | added | Brian S | @PointlessSpike, Agreed. Anecdotally, not counting my vacation, I've taken more days of PTO than I've been sick. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 12:53 | comment | added | PointlessSpike | Just a point- taking a sick day does not necessarily translate into being sick. That article points out that women are more likely to take time off if their kids are ill. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 12:43 | history | asked | Christian | CC BY-SA 3.0 |