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The Invincible Dogma

Eleanor32 Wrote: Apr 03, 2012 9:28 AM
"There are statistics and then there are da*m statistics". So my husband used to say when he was studying statistics for him MBA. As an engineer his thought processes were more practical. You can tweek statistics to mean anything you want, depending on your basic... honesty.
A long-standing legal charade was played out again recently, when Federal Express paid $3 million to settle an employment discrimination case brought by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Federal Express was accused of both racial discrimination and sex discrimination. FedEx denied it.

Why then did they pay the $3 million? Because it can cost a lot more than $3 million to fight a discrimination case. Years ago, the Sears department store chain spent $20 million fighting a sex discrimination charge that took 15 years to make its way through the legal labyrinth. In the end, Sears won -- if spending $20 million and...

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