who makes just min. wage?

[hmkpoker]

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This was my experience also when I worked in a cherry factory.

There is a sizeable portion of the workforce that makes just enough to pay for food and shelter and aren't blessed with the requisite talent or intelligence to progress up the pay scale.

Their work is hard and draining. Their housing is spartan at best, they have hardly any opportunity for recreation, and can't afford health insurance.

A lot of them are really nice people even.

Anyone who would fault a person with an IQ of 75 for failing to self educate is an [censored] in my book.

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Evolution is how they even got their spartan housing in the first place.

[FlFishOn]

I could easily be wrong. A split rate min wage is possible.

[NCAces]

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Well let's see, according to the 2000 census the population was 281,421,906. Of that, 25.0 percent are younger than 18, and 12.4 percent are older than 65.

Subtracting those leaves ~176 million people of working age. If you call a standard deviation 16 points then I believe about 16% of this population should fall below the 84 point line. That would be 28 million people.

So yeah, there are *some*

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Not sure I follow you ... are you saying there are 28 million people in our workforce whose IQs fall under 78 (or whatever number we were talking about)? I'm not buying that.

NCAces

[Copernicus]

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Well let's see, according to the 2000 census the population was 281,421,906. Of that, 25.0 percent are younger than 18, and 12.4 percent are older than 65.

Subtracting those leaves ~176 million people of working age. If you call a standard deviation 16 points then I believe about 16% of this population should fall below the 84 point line. That would be 28 million people.

So yeah, there are *some*

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Not sure I follow you ... are you saying there are 28 million people in our workforce whose IQs fall under 78 (or whatever number we were talking about)? I'm not buying that.

NCAces

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I think he said 16% of the population has an IQ <84, not necessarily those in the workforce.

About 20% of the population has an IQ between 74 and 89 which is considered an employable range (with considerable supervision), so Dr. S's numbers dont seem too far off.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Yeah if the distribution is normal, then about 16% of the population should be at least one standard deviation (16 pts per sd) below the mean. So there would be 28 million people of working age that have an IQ below 84.

I'm sure not all of them are working, but it's reasonable to assume millions are.

[BillUCF]

Ha ha. You actually went from one min wage to another, twice. That's really asserting yourself.

[BillUCF]

That's your own fault. No wonder you want a gov't handout.

[Reef]

I taught tennis to groups of kids for .25 over minimum wage (which was $5.75 4 years ago). Thank God for poker.

[kurto]

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I taught tennis to groups of kids for .25 over minimum wage (which was $5.75 4 years ago). Thank God for poker.

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I'm really surprised. I would think teaching kids tennis would pay better then that.

[hmkpoker]

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That's your own fault. No wonder you want a gov't handout.

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1) I make $200/night in tips

2) Where do you keep getting this "you want a government handout stuff?"