jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:

> In article <e58d56ae.0311230725.5143a4a0@posting.google.com>,
>    whopkins@csd.uwm.edu (Alfred Einstead) wrote:
> 
>>jspub2003@yahoo.com (jsp) wrote:
>>
>>>During the past two years, the salaries of 
>>>most scientists including physicists have decreased significantly.  
>>
>>Too much supply, not enough demand.
> 
> 
> How am I supposed to read this datum?  1.  Every employed scientist
> has received a pay cut.  2.  Starting salaries have decreased; but
> starting salaries for what?  3.  The salaries of jobs transforming
> dirt into gold are averaged in with the medical biochem jobs causing
> the average for biochem to drop and the average for dirt-to-gold
> to rise?

Consider the averaged effect made up by ten physicists with salaries of 
10^6$/a fired or retired.

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Roland Franzius