Pages 19-29: Stimulus Material by Elizabeth Gurkin

Health Risk

2017-11-20 12:52:40 UTC

Long Working hours affects your health. (pg. 19)

Cancer

2017-11-20 12:53:42 UTC

4371 people were diagnosed with cancer after the experiment was complete. (pg. 20)

Conclusion

2017-11-20 12:55:11 UTC

There wasn't a direct association with cancer and working hours

Cancer Study

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 12:55:57 UTC

The number of hours that each person worked were "self reported". This could present possible limitations of the viability of the results. (pg. 19)

2017-11-20 12:56:26 UTC

Although the amount of working hours in a week have been seen to affect a person's health, it has not been directly related to increasing the chance of getting cancer.

Word Choice

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 12:57:24 UTC

I had to look up Epidemiological. Still confused on what this actually is. Any clarifications?

Conclusion

2017-11-20 12:58:14 UTC

Was it just coincidental that they had been diagnosed with cancer after the experiment?

Cancer/Working Long Hours

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 12:59:09 UTC

Interesting that working weekly hours did not affect possible lung cancers, prostate, or colorectal. However, working over 55 hours did show an increase in breast cancer. I am wondering why?

Connection

2017-11-20 13:01:20 UTC

How does cancer and long working hours connect?

2017-11-20 13:03:43 UTC

"We observed no
association between longer than recommended weekly working
hours and overall cancer risk, although working <35 h per week
was associated with a slightly reduced average risk of any incident
cancer." (pg. 20). If there is no correlation between long hours with an increased rate, how is there a correlation with less working hours and decrease rate?

Correlation

2017-11-20 13:06:07 UTC

How can they be sure the cancer is related to work hours and not family genetics, the environment, or other altering factors?

Epidemiological

2017-11-20 13:07:28 UTC

relating to the branch of medicine which deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of diseases.

Theme

2017-11-20 13:07:31 UTC

Coming of age could be a possible theme due to the fact that when you get older you will be working and as shown in the study working over 55 hours in one week can increase your chance at breast cancer as a female. You will be more prone to cancer at this older age because you will be working.

2017-11-20 13:07:55 UTC

"The observed association with breast cancer would warrant further research." (pg. 19). If working hours is not related to any other cancer, but maybe breast cancer, I would like to see the future research on that topic.

Address to the Nation on Labor Day

2017-11-20 13:08:03 UTC

Address to the Nation: Labor Day

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 13:09:17 UTC

Nixon says that the purpose the American people serve is to work.
(pg. 26)

Address to the Nation

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 13:10:20 UTC

Work ethic=Success? If you have a strong work ethic are you guaranteed success? (pg. 26)

pg 20 Jobs and Callings

2017-11-20 13:11:19 UTC

Sometimes doing what you've always wanted to do makes you happier than just having a "job" to work for money.

Labor Day

2017-11-20 13:11:25 UTC

Work Ethic and Moral Impact

pg. 28

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 13:16:05 UTC

And so these are the four elements of productivity: investment in new technology, job training,
good management, and high employee motivation. Taken together, they raise the amount each
worker actually produces.

- these are the four elements Nixon concluded with in his speech.

Theme- Address to the nation

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 13:17:25 UTC

Competition is healthy?

2017-11-20 13:18:12 UTC

While work hours can be related to stress, and stress has been proven to cause other problems, cancer is such a complicated topic that has several variables to consider, thus making it very difficult to directly relate work hours to cancer.

Further Research

2017-11-20 13:21:05 UTC

Further research needs to be conducted on possibility of correlation between <55 hour work and breast cancer through women.

2017-11-20 13:21:33 UTC

What are the "refresher courses" that Nixon mentions on page 27?

A World Without Work

2017-11-20 13:23:15 UTC

On page 20, the author speaks about the prospects of being without work having a negative effect on one's self esteem.

"We can do it

elizabethgurkin — 2017-11-20 13:23:32 UTC

What were the results of women entering the workforce during the WWII era? I wonder how much of their productivity contributed to the overall economic status of the US during that time?

Perspectives

2017-11-20 13:25:03 UTC

Nixon mentions the different ways to be productive like using the latest technology, job training, good management, and the heart in what you are doing. Could those be considered the different perspectives?

2017-11-20 13:28:06 UTC

Nixon's speech is going against the first passage on page 5, A World Without Work. Nixon is praising work labor while the first passage says many people won't have jobs because robots are doing the labor.

Limitations

2017-11-20 13:30:49 UTC

Would a limitation be that in the study everybody has a different field of work which would mean others would be exposed to more things than others

2017-11-20 13:35:02 UTC

The study the European men and women working more hours shows that there was no relation between the two. Pg 20 Discussion