| 0:00:02 | my main field of research is on the topic of social status and often when |
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| 0:00:07 | you bring up where status |
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| 0:00:09 | people especially academics will say is that they just the same thing is quality |
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| 0:00:15 | is the gesture really old scale |
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| 0:00:18 | and the answer is no so let's imagine that your own form |
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| 0:00:23 | and you happen to be of chicken form |
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| 0:00:27 | who also has the ability to have to hand genetically identical chickens for all problems |
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| 0:00:34 | of each other and therefore there's their growing up in the pen their equal and |
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| 0:00:40 | underlined while because the claw |
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| 0:00:42 | and then imagine that be relatively early on their some winter the some rain that |
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| 0:00:47 | allows some chickens to advantage over the chickens and attacking order |
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| 0:00:53 | and that pecking order where one chicken packs on |
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| 0:00:57 | a chicken who in turn packs and lots of chickens |
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| 0:00:59 | that's the basis for status and so because of that status ordering among the chickens |
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| 0:01:06 | some will eventually get access to better water let's say two or more two more |
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| 0:01:10 | water to better food and ultimately we can imagine some differences in quality |
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| 0:01:16 | amongst feature |
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| 0:01:18 | but this is all because of status and not because of some initial difference in |
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| 0:01:22 | quality so status and quality are actually different from each other so on the research |
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| 0:01:27 | side that simple example really doesn't by the question |
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| 0:01:32 | whether modeling performance as a kind of iterations or as those we use econometrics models |
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| 0:01:38 | should we be including a measure of status independent of skilled human capital |
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| 0:01:44 | i'm looking at here affects |
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| 0:01:48 | in contest for status using data on us news and we report ranking sort of |
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| 0:01:53 | colleges |
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| 0:01:54 | and of university |
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| 0:01:56 | when your peers to schools that are competitors of your do better in terms of |
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| 0:02:02 | attracting higher quality students have high sat scores does that cause you to do worse |
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| 0:02:09 | in your feature ranking word is spar you should do better than other words is |
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| 0:02:14 | the is the effect of appear school a couple a competition of fact |
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| 0:02:18 | boris it can page an effect that's the main thing that we're looking at now |
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| 0:02:22 | i think one of the most intriguing aspects of other research that have been doing |
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| 0:02:26 | on status and this is with young cue him from korea university and that's made |
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| 0:02:31 | from the university of michigan is that status has a dark side to it can |
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| 0:02:37 | be |
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| 0:02:39 | somewhat corrupting |
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| 0:02:40 | and this is a finding that's in contrast to much of the recent work on |
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| 0:02:44 | status which basically says that status as a signal it helps us to see what |
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| 0:02:50 | you're quality is even if we can see your quality and it's also a resource |
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| 0:02:54 | seven that's gonna help you this research suggests that as you get very high and |
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| 0:02:58 | status |
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| 0:02:59 | you will broke complacent and you will also become distracted |
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| 0:03:04 | and it's got some interesting ethical implications in the sense that it does indicate that |
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| 0:03:11 | people will acquire status have to be good stewards of the status they get |
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| 0:03:16 | be slowly a corrupted maple easy via nor the can they or should they allow |
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| 0:03:21 | themselves to be diverted by all the people one piece of them not they've got |
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| 0:03:26 | their status |
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