Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!agate!karenc@amadeus.TEK.COM From: karenc@amadeus.TEK.COM (Karen Cate;6291502;92-734;LP=A;60.D) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Submission for comp-society-women Message-ID: <11268@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 22 Jun 88 22:44:09 GMT References: <11169@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 36 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu Lines: 32 In article <11169@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> sri-unix!swbatl!bst@rutgers.edu (Brenda S. Thompson 235-3335 M110) writes: >I think this is all a bunch of poppy-cock. > ... >I have studied ergonomics for a number of years, and have reviewed >this debate on a number of occassions. My personal opinion is that >there is no real basis for this argument. > >Brenda > >[The researchers did emphasize that they saw a statistical, not a >causal, correlation. TR] > I agree, it never made any sense to me (even though I have never been pregnant...). There could be a lot of other causes for this statistical correlation. Stress maybe? Sitting still (maybe in an uncomfortable position) for longer periods of time (than other workers)? It sounds like the arguement that because sports cars are involved in more accidents, they are unsafe to drive. I always assumed that sports cars were involved in more accidents because of the personalities / driving habits of the type of people that bought them. The cars in and of themselves are no less safe to drive than any other. Why would a VDT be any worse than a television set? (Don't tell me because we sit closer longer. I've seen Mom's watching soap operas. Heck, I've seen me watching soap operas!) Karen A. Cate Tektronix Inc, Beaverton OR tektronix!amadeus!karenc -OR- karenc@amadeus.LA.TEK.COM [What was unclear from the report is if women working with VDTs had more miscarriages than women working at jobs with similar stress levels, but no VDTs. TR]