Hypothesis Testing For High Ministerial Salaries

[TracyTan866]

Hypothesis testing is a way of systematically quantifying how certain you are of the result of a statistical experiment.

PAP's Hypothesis for obscene Ministerial salaries is that they need such salaries to recruit talented Singaporeans to come into politics and to keep them corruption free.

WP's Hypothesis is that we need high salaries to have good Singaporeans in politics but such salaries must be pegged to Civil Service pay.

What Confidence level do we have for each hypothesis?

 

[The_Hypocrite]

Hi Tracy,

my take is that those civil serpents on the 'super scale' is already way tooo overpaid...however if the MPs pay is pegged to the lowest paid civil servant than maybe its a better formula

 

[captainxerox]

actually the old school system has some merits. civil servants and politician are paid shit, but they get transparent housing or car perks e.g. good interest rates for loans, q-jumping for hdb. people are just obsessed with minister pay coz they cannot perform, don't want private sector accountability and yet want private sector pay.

 

[The_Hypocrite]

actually the old school system has some merits. civil servants and politician are paid shit, but they get transparent housing or car perks e.g. good interest rates for loans, q-jumping for hdb. people are just obsessed with minister pay coz they cannot perform, don't want private sector accountability and yet want private sector pay.

Yeah in certain ways you are right,,,but u dont want the situation where you get dead wood civil servants who stay just to get benefits and resistant to good changes etc,,,

 

[vamjok]

fuck ass, reminds me of my statistic class. took at least over 5 statistic modules and always forgotten how to find standard deviation after each sem....

 

[mojito]

Hypothesis testing is a way of systematically quantifying how certain you are of the result of a statistical experiment.

PAP's Hypothesis for obscene Ministerial salaries is that they need such salaries to recruit talented Singaporeans to come into politics and to keep them corruption free.

WP's Hypothesis is that we need high salaries to have good Singaporeans in politics but such salaries must be pegged to Civil Service pay.

What Confidence level do we have for each hypothesis?

In my humble opinion, PAP's null hypothesis could result in a Type 2 error, where well-intentioned and moderately capable individuals (but not elite) are denied a chance to enter politics because the bar is set high for potential candidates. The power to elevate these individuals to office lies with the incumbents' central decision makers.