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GSA spent millions in relocation costs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The General Services Administration inspector general was told the agency spent as much as $330,000 to move an employee from Denver to Hawaii, an example of millions of dollars wasted in relocation costs.

The latest example of GSA waste to become public came from a transcript of an interview between an inspector general's investigator and an employee who handled relocations.

Read on... http://news.yahoo.com/gsa-spent-millions-relocation-costs-213822608.html

Taxpayers pay millions to mow lawns of foreclosed homes

American taxpayers own close to 200,000 vacant houses, and over the next year they will spend more than $40 million just to mow lawns at these properties. Taxpayers also foot the bills to paint walls, fix cabinets, plant flowers and more -- expenses that just last year, exceeded a half a billion dollars.

The housing bailout has already cost taxpayers $124 million, now Americans are spending hundreds of millions more fixing up foreclosed homes to try and sell them. It is a bizarre and expensive side effect of the housing market collapse and failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage giants that went into federal conservatorship in 2008.

Read on....  http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/taxpayers-pay-millions-mow-lawns-foreclosed-homes-100514058.html

Editor's Note:  Half a billion taxpayer dollars......  Never mind the fraud that's probably going on here.....  "Oh, this foreclosed home needs new plumbing!"  When it doesn't.......

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UI study suggests women score lower on technical aptitude tests because they're just not interested

A new study by a University of Iowa researcher suggests that males score better on technical aptitude tests than females because boys and men are simply more interested than girls in technical things, like taking apart a bike.

The theory offered by Frank Schmidt, professor of management and organizations in the Tippie College of Business, seeks to explain why men score better than women on technical aptitude tests even though the two genders are of equal intelligence.

Aptitude tests are used to predict how well people will do in school and on jobs. These tests focus on particular skills or kinds of specific aptitude, like verbal or technical aptitude. But research over the last few decades by Schmidt and others has found that what really matters is general intelligence, not specific aptitudes. Smart people, researchers have found, are able to learn the requirements of any job if they are motivated.

"The factors that are measured by the specific aptitude tests independent of the general intelligence component in these tests don't make any contribution to job performance," he says.

Technical aptitude measures are often used as a component of general intelligence measures, so Schmidt wanted to know why women and men score differently on technical aptitude in particular. He analyzed data from the 10 subtest Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB, to look at how men and women differed on the tests, including those on technical aptitude.

He found that at all intelligence levels women score lower on technical aptitude than men at the same intelligence level. Also, at all levels of technical aptitude women had higher levels of general intelligence. So if technical aptitude tests are used as part of a measure of general intelligence, women could receive intelligence scores that are too low. That is, technical aptitude tests may be biased indicators of general intelligence for girls and women.

In his paper "A Theory of Sex Differences in Technical Aptitude and Some Supporting Evidence," Schmidt presents a theory that suggests this difference stems from sex differences in interest in technical pursuits. People who are more interested in technical things are led to acquire technical experience, which in turn increases technical aptitude scores.

He presents evidence that among men, technical experience does lead to better scores on technical aptitude tests. To find out for sure, he would need to conduct another long-term study -- one that looks at whether early interests develop into later aptitudes, as opposed to the opposite theory that aptitudes cause interests. If his theory is right, it might be possible to narrow the gap in technical aptitude by getting girls more interested in technical areas. Interest should lead to aptitude.

But that may not work, Schmidt says.

"The research shows it's very hard to change people's interests," he says. "They're pretty stable and they form pretty early in life."

It's more important, he says, to make sure that the tests used to measure general intelligence aren't using biased indicators. "That is quite possible today. You can either not use technical aptitude tests or you can use them and counterbalance them," he says, with tests that women tend to do better on, like perceptual speed or some verbal tests.

Schmidt's paper is published in the current issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, published by the Association for Psychological Science.