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Cake day: September 30th, 2023

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  • Yeah I’m doing work today so I can get you the exact figure. So this is kind of a composite of different research as we have two points here:

    • heightened pay disparity leads to all the outcomes I described earlier (Wilkinson, R. & Pickett, K. 2020; Bloom, 1999; Bloom & Michel, 2002)
    • research assessing what this level of disparity looks like in companies for CEO pay (n= 55,238, 45 countries sampled) shows that individuals roughly find justifiable pay should be between 5-10x the lowest paid employee. So if you have your lowest paid employee making 75k the CEO should only make a maximum of 750k to keep a level of perceived equity. (Kiatpongsan & Norton, 2014)

  • This is actually supported in the scientific literature as we know that once the pay disparity between leaders and employees goes over a certain threshold it starts to decrease basically everything for employees from wellbeing to basic productivity (I know the citation but not home and lazy to send it). Problem is most organizations don’t actually really want to make good effective workplaces that are good for everyone as they only want to benefit the people on top in the short term.


  • Cognitive ability tests aren’t that straightforward and no online random free one is going to actually be representative of a true one. Even traditional “IQ” tests are not just a number you get. Most people with ADHD have what we call “spikey” profiles on most tests of individual differences. This is partially because we just have different strengths and weaknesses from neurotypicals that comes out in testing and the other part is these tests usually aren’t made for people with neurodivergances and results tend to come out strangely (if you take any personality test based on big 5 or hexaco you’ll probably have way lower contentiousness scores for example). You aren’t a genius, but you also aren’t stupid, you’re just you with all the strengths and flaws.