{"id":701,"date":"2004-02-24T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-24T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2018-08-10T05:47:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:47:39","slug":"701","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/24\/701\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Your Premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his <i>Star-Tribune<\/i> column, Lileks invokes some statistics, or rather alludes to an article which referred to a study that includes statistics about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/stories\/804\/4519072.html\" target=\"new\">tall people earning more money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tall People are more likely to be paid more money. Each additional inch adds $789 annually to your paycheck. The natural conclusion: If you want a new car, figure out the payments, then head off to Tijuana for an illegal shin augmentation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pardon me while I add a hearty &#8220;You don&#8217;t say&#8221; to the conversation.  Once you get beyond 6&#8242; 4&#8243;, brother, you&#8217;re looking at actors, basketball players, and Michael Crichton.  Undoubtedly, these fellows alone skew the averages quite upward.  I am only 6&#8242; 0&#8243; and I can think of plenty of runts who make more than I do.  Of course, I am in the IT industry, and everyone in IT makes more than the cheap QA help.<\/p>\n<p>What was my point?  Oh, yeah, read this guy Lileks.  He&#8217;s an obscure Minnesotan columnist, but just because someone is from the upper Midwest and <i>not<\/i> Wisconsin is no reason to let him toil in his obscurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Star-Tribune column, Lileks invokes some statistics, or rather alludes to an article which referred to a study that includes statistics about tall people earning more money: Tall People are more likely to be paid more money. Each additional inch adds $789 annually to your paycheck. The natural conclusion: If you want a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22503,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/22503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}