Being a waiter is more stressful than being a neurosurgeon

[JPSmyth]

Scientists Say It’s More Stressful to Be a Waiter Than a Neurosurgeon

LOL

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[Lawpy]

Here is the actual study

 

[cactusman]

It's also been known for a while that, once you get below around 75k annually, level of stress and frequency of worries tend to increase as income decreases.

 

[JustAPhD]

Clickbaity title. It's worth noting that the study looked at strokes as a measure of stress. Which, sure makes some sense, but there are many more factors at play there as well. I'm away so I can't read the primary paper, so maybe they explain how they controlled for other variables. In general though I don't put much faith in these kind of things.

 

[cactusman]

Clickbaity title. It's worth noting that the study looked at strokes as a measure of stress. Which, sure makes some sense, but there are many more factors at play there as well. I'm away so I can't read the primary paper, so maybe they explain how they controlled for other variables. In general though I don't put much faith in these kind of things.

The paper wasn't really trying to measure stress, it just grouped certain jobs together based on the characteristics outlined in the article and then found the risk of stroke for each.

 

[Geo16]

The paper wasn't really trying to measure stress, it just grouped certain jobs together based on the characteristics outlined in the article and then found the risk of stroke for each.

About to say that. Read two other articles that this article referenced.
Just saying they are in high chance of ischemic stroke. Just more likely to have an ischemic stroke.

Also: "Having a lot of job stress has been linked to heart disease, but studies on job stress and stroke have shown inconsistent results," said Dingli Xu, MD,

 

[JustAPhD]

The paper wasn't really trying to measure stress, it just grouped certain jobs together based on the characteristics outlined in the article and then found the risk of stroke for each.

About to say that. Read two other articles that this article referenced.
Just saying they are in high chance of ischemic stroke. Just more likely to have an ischemic stroke.

Also: "Having a lot of job stress has been linked to heart disease, but studies on job stress and stroke have shown inconsistent results," said Dingli Xu, MD,

Thanks gents, my quick glance betrayed me.

 

[neusu]

They don't say anything about a neurosurgery resident.

 

[Gorne]

Confounding variables. What kind of people are waiters, what kind of people are neurosurgeons? This likely has far more to do with the incidence of disease than the actual stress of the job.

 

[bbbcccppp]

Waiter there's a dendrite in my soup


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[LutGholein]

Neurosurgery residents who moonlight as waiters have it the worse.

What a click-bait title.