Chapter 11 asymmetrical

I have been shocked since I was a child: it is difficult to become a pilot, and if there is any scar on any part of the body, it is difficult to enter the sky.It is said that under a certain height and a certain speed, the scar will automatically tear, and then a large group of flesh and blood will burst out. "Exploding out of the pulp" has some personal imagination elements. However, until the interview with Yang Liwei's colleagues before the Spring Festival this year, Fang was once again shocked to learn that the original scar has nothing to do with becoming a pilot. The reason for this saying is, Just because I want to be

There are so many pilots and qualified people that some artificial barriers have to be put in place as an elimination mechanism.Reminiscent of reports a few years ago that applicants for flight attendants had to strip naked for inspection, it must be because of this. The normal or "fair" situation should be like this: Among the citizens of service age, there are more people who know how to play flying chess than those who love it; There are more pilots; there are more people who want to be pilots than those who are qualified to be pilots; and there are more people who are qualified to be pilots than are qualified to be pilots.However, based on the total number of service-age population in our country, it is obvious that there are too many monks, and the number of qualified pilots must be far greater than the number of qualified aircraft.

Therefore, although "scars" may not conform to common sense, it is far from being discriminatory, and it could not be more fair.This kind of fairness is also reflected in the following matter: A friend's daughter recently applied for an English teacher in a private school.At the eighth level of English, she has a plan in her chest, and she passed all the way and successfully reached the final.The examiner's last question was: "Do you have a certificate for the eighth level of piano?" The little sister was stunned on the spot, and helplessly reminded the examiner that she was here to apply for an English teacher, not a music teacher.The other party replied: "After screening you, there are only two people left. You two are evenly matched, even the appearance is similar, but the other person has an eighth grade of piano more than you. If you are the examiner, how should you choose?" ?”

Whether the private school has a hidden plan to allow English teachers to also teach music is not easy to speculate, but the reality is not only there, but the reality is stronger than people.The recent case of Xiaolu, a girl from a university in Jinan, who was rejected for her “breast asymmetry” when she applied for a civil servant in Hunan Province was essentially the same story as “scars” and “level 8 piano”. The clause on the symmetry of women's breasts has been abolished recently, and the aftermath of the incident is still unresolved. The reason why "breast symmetry" was unanimously accused of being a bad example is because of "sex discrimination".In fact, putting aside "discrimination" first, "breast asymmetry" and the problems it causes stem from "information asymmetry".Concise economics textbooks usually take the second-hand car market as an example when explaining this concept: in this market, because car sellers have more information about vehicles than buyers, an "information asymmetry" occurs. It is difficult for Fang Fang to fully trust the information provided by the car seller, so he tries to make up for his information loss by lowering the price.The buyer's bid is too low, and the seller is unwilling to provide good products, which leads to the flood of defective goods, and the final result is the shrinking of this market. Economists of the "asymmetrical" school draw the conclusion that an open market cannot solve all problems. Information has a price. Not only must there be a product market, but also an indispensable information market.

The "information asymmetry" in the labor market, taking the case of the girl Xiaolu as an example, is mainly reflected in the fact that job seekers and commentators are not aware that the employer's "breast asymmetry" regulation is not necessarily to please men or out of According to the published and abolished "Physical Examination Standards for Civil Servants in Hunan", "breast symmetry" can be independent, and at the same time, it can exist as a sign of "normal development of secondary sexual characteristics".Modern medicine generally believes that breast asymmetry is mainly related to the difference in sensitivity to sex hormones on both sides of the breast, and some of them are caused by unbalanced development of pectoralis major and connective tissue on both sides due to improper sitting posture when writing or uneven force on both arms.Of course, there is also the possibility of lesions. The so-called "mammary gland mass" is an organic tumor. Of course, the tumor may be benign or malignant.In other words, the direct meaning of "normal development of secondary sexual characteristics, symmetrical breasts without lumps" is actually "anyone who is sick or looks sick will not be hired."

In any case, if the “breast-involvement” of this matter means that it must also involve “sex discrimination”, then those who have “intra-abdominal cryptorchidism” in the civil servant recruitment regulations of Guangdong Province are also excluded from employment. "Intra-abdominal cryptorchidism", that is, part or one side of the male testis is retained in the abdominal cavity during growth and development. This symptom, that is, the incomplete development of male secondary sexual characteristics, may also be described as "not Symmetrical" as it is.In fact, whether or not cryptorchidism is a must-check item for men from middle school to university - of course, from middle school to university, no matter men or women, who has not walked all the way through the many exams?I would like to say that the test is a kind of "score discrimination", but dare I?

Secondly, the "information asymmetry" in the labor market is fundamentally caused by the "asymmetry of supply and demand" in this market.Although 700,000 new civil servants have been added nationwide in the past three years, there are still 16,000 applicants for the 2004 recruitment examination for government officials and national civil servants in Guangzhou, which began in early February this year, and 30,000 of them passed the examination and took the written examination. More than 1,500 people entered the interview, and they competed for 515 positions.Let's reverse this ratio and try, not to mention asymmetrical breasts, heh, so what if you are born without breasts?As long as you have a red heart serving the people on your left breast, and this red heart does not need to make two preparations at all.

Voltaire said: "On our poor earth... equality is the most natural and the most impractical thing." In the case of absolute asymmetry between supply and demand, "discrimination" can only be an absolutely asymmetric luxury. talk.