tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post3158706234241844754..comments2023-10-09T00:45:55.603+09:00Comments on Shisaku: From Out Of What Pit of Sordid Ignorance?MTChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-20418673565195961562008-10-22T09:09:00.000+09:002008-10-22T09:09:00.000+09:00rubashov - 1) Declines in median incomes are bette...rubashov - <BR/><BR/>1) Declines in median incomes are better guides as to the likelihood or not of political revolt than declines in mean incomes. <BR/><BR/>2) By increasing the number of licensed taxicab drivers without increasing the number of hours or days a taxicab driver could work per month, the government plunged all taxicab drivers into a hopeless struggle to make a living wage. At a stroke, taxicab driving was transformed from a profession to a part-time job for most of its practitioners.<BR/><BR/>3) Does your final point indicate surprise as the possibility I might be a liberal?MTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04626942240117432624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714063.post-50144121358076392292008-10-21T23:11:00.000+09:002008-10-21T23:11:00.000+09:00You say that "the result is a fall in median incom...You say that "the result is a fall in median income." That what Aso says too! His claim is about "mean income." He admits the decrease in income for some employed people (which causes a drop in median income) but claims that is countered by an increase in the mean income (because formerly unemployed people now have some income, at least). He's talking about shifting the outliers and you're shifting the middle point. <BR/><BR/>Reasonable people can disagree with which form of the averge is more important, but we usually see conservatives talk up the mean (which goes up when rich outliers make more money) and liberals talk up the median (which does not). That's why it was surprising for me to see your use of the median to reject his concern for outliers at the poor end of the scale.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com