Practice question · True or false
According to the Whitehall data, even a comfortably middle-tier employee tends to have worse health than someone one grade above them.
Hints
- Is the gradient only at the bottom, or at every level?
- The step-wise pattern means each grade differs from the one just above it.
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True
Why
True. The Whitehall gradient is continuous - health improves at every step up, so even middle-tier employees fare worse than those one grade higher. This is exactly why the gradient is not just a poor-versus-everyone-else divide.
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