Stress and Class

In this article Timothy Noah has a good amount of evidence, but he also used logic to support his argument. Opinion is always in an argument response, but Timothy was especially convincing. As a member of the "have-nots" I am very aware of how the chain of command spreads its level of stress. Timothy falsifies the opposing evidence fairly easily. He explains that the measure in which the evidence supporting the idea that higher paying people have higher levels of stress is based on the subject’s ability to complain about their work. This doesn't seem to be a sample of actually stress levels. In fact, Timothy mentions that people with higher rankings would complain more because they feel more entitled to. From personal experience, I would have to completely agree. If you are at the bottom of the chain and you continuously complain you either get reprimanded or terminated. Timothy's best logical evidence was when he stated that even if higher paying jobs did work more, that did not mean they would have more stress. Hours worked doesn't not equal amount of stress. It does matter what you do in your job. Timothy also supports an older experiment that was drastically more specific and scientific in terms of measuring stress levels. It was based off of blood pressure and a few other medical measurements. In this experiment they compared the blood pressure of an African-American single mother's day with a stock broker. Oh, and the day that they do this experiment just so happens to be "Black Monday", the day the stock market plummeted. This really shed light on the subject.