The overall correlation we arrived at between pay level and job satisfaction was just .15. (For comparison, the correlation between typical human height and weight is .44, and the correlation between IQ scores in identical twins is .86.) This suggests that within an organization, those who make more money are barely more satisfied than those who make much less.
But although their article documents a correlation of privatisation and mortality at the country level, it provides no evidence for their theory that privatisation causes job loss.
In a release Alinean sent out after the article appeared, entitled "Alinean Research Shows That IT Does Matter, " the firm notes that its research in fact shows no correlation between IT spending per se--at any level--and corporate performance.