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  • Those kinds of attitudes reflect a long history of adapting to oppression and stymied opportunities, said Professor Ogbu, a Nigerian immigrant who has written that involuntary black immigrants behave like low-status minorities in other societies.

    What Explains Inequality?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • When the low-status boss went the order-giving route, people gave him a relatively high effectiveness score: 4.25, on a scale of 7.

    Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea 2011

  • Those working in low-status jobs were far more likely to die before the age of 60 than those working in higher status jobs.

    Revealed: The Secret to Long Life and Happiness 2011

  • When a low-status detainee like Jesus appears before him, with the words "king" and "kingdom" swirling about, there's no reason for Pilate to delay the inevitable, unless it's to provoke onlookers and in the process reassert Roman dominance a little more.

    Matthew L. Skinner: Pontius Pilate v. Jesus: Was It A Fair Trial? Matthew L. Skinner 2011

  • Humor type and presenter status had no effects on short-term attractiveness, but self-deprecating humor by high-status presenters (but not low-status presenters) increased long-term attractiveness for both sexes.

    Come Upstairs and See My Vocabulary, Baby? 2009

  • Drivers of high-status cars, as defined by the researchers, were less likely to slow down (38% of the time) than drivers of average cars (47%), but more so than drivers of low-status cars (32%).

    Week in Ideas Christopher Shea 2011

  • In the majority of cases, they learned the language, took on low-status jobs and endured a lot of ribbing, sometimes not so good-natured, if the endless jibes against Polish builders at least from native builders are anything to go by.

    Stealing a kitten is not the only cruelty here | Barbara Ellen 2011

  • When a low-status detainee like Jesus appears before him, with the words "king" and "kingdom" swirling about, there's no reason for Pilate to delay the inevitable, unless it's to provoke onlookers and in the process reassert Roman dominance a little more.

    Matthew L. Skinner: Pontius Pilate v. Jesus: Was It A Fair Trial? Matthew L. Skinner 2011

  • Both groups, however, were equally willing to pay for low-status items like a ballpoint pen, a clothes dryer, and a minivan.

    Primary Sources 2008

  • (The grad students also perform another crucial function: teaching the low-status intro math and science classes that more senior faculty disdain.)

    The Trouble with Going Global 2010

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