re: #289 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

No, I’m sorry, but the level of staffing between competitors can very very widely.

I’m not sure why you think that it’s a good thing for something to have no effect on competitiveness, either. If we raised, say, environmental standards, that’d hit some companies harder than others— the ones that were right on the previous line, companies that exceeded standards wouldn’t have to change— and that’d be a good thing.

I’m sorry, but at this point it seems like you just either haven’t read my posts. There is competitive difference in a raise in the minimum wage, because some employers use minimum wage workers for jobs that other companies use above-minimum wage workers, and because companies can vary widely in their staffing levels-per-customer. I don’t know how else to explain it.

The original comment was about the statistical use of aggregates where a bunch of small samples can be treated as a large averaged sample. Of course this ignores the individual differences, but it’s used to come to a general conclusion about a population.