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Actually it shows how unequal the US states are in terms of economic power, the average US state is on number 31, California on number 5. Which begs the questi
by tehabe 10y ago
Actually it shows how unequal the US states are in terms of economic power, the average US state is on number 31, California on number 5.
Which begs the question, which is the worst doing state in the Union?
(Answer: it is Vermont)
- mikeash 10y agoAll it shows is how unequal the US states are in terms of population. California has the biggest economy simply because it has the most people.
- jdavis703 10y agoNot exactly true. Even if Texas (the no. 2 U.S. state by population) had the same population as California it would still have a smaller economy.
- mikeash 10y agoSure, but the difference is much smaller. The state with the highest GDP per capita beats the state with the lowest by a factor of about 2, whereas the difference in population between biggest and smallest is about a factor of 66. Texas versus California is a particularly bad example of this, with Texas's GDP per capita less than 1% lower.
- bluthru 10y agoPer capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per_capita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...
- tehabe 10y agoThat is true, I didn't look for per capita but the absolute number. Also, if you take per capita, California isn't the biggest economy in the US, it's Delaware or if it were a state: Washington, DC.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y ago> Which begs the question No, it doesn't - http://begthequestion.info http://begthequestion.info
- rpgmaker 10y agoIt's not even Vermont, he just wanted to trash it.
- tehabe 10y agoI didn't. When I thought about it, my guess was West Virginia. But I was wrong, in absolute number as per capita.
- haffla 10y agoBeing a non native in English I'm really grateful for this comment. I've never really understood this BTQ expression.
- hartpuff 10y agoHopefully the parent of your post was joking - the site he linked to is a "joke" site - but either way, it's misleading and unhelpful (particularly to non-English speakers) to pretend that "begs the question" was used incorrectly there by tehabe. It wasn't. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/beg-the-question http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/beg-the-q... http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/beg-the-question http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/beg-the... http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beg%20the%20question http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/beg%20the%20questi...
- Apocryphon 10y agoI understand that language is dynamic, and colloquial misuse turns into accepted use, and so nonplussed means unimpressed and disinterested means uninterested, but with this expression I will stand with the pedants and the original meaning.
- rayiner 10y agoVermont is also the least populous state so that says little. Per capita, California does well but is behind states like Masachusetts, New York, New Jersey, etc. http://www.statista.com/statistics/248063/per-capita-us-real-gross-domestic-product-gdp-by-state http://www.statista.com/statistics/248063/per-capita-us-real.... It's less rich than Delaware by about the same margin as its richer than Oregon.
- tehabe 10y agoBesides this discussion, if "begs the question" is good English or used correctly by me. I think to set state with the lowest GDP and "worst doing state" equal was wrong and incorrect. Now I remember all the discussions I had if the GDP is actually a good indicator of the economy and welth of a nation, state, or territory.