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Well said. Giving non-inflation adjusted prices is such piss-poor journalism. It's as bad as the practice of making time-relative statements like "since last ye
by ProxCoques 10y ago
Well said. Giving non-inflation adjusted prices is such piss-poor journalism. It's as bad as the practice of making time-relative statements like "since last year", so the reader has to work out what that means.
- nl 10y agoOr "summertime". For half the planet that means precisely the opposite time of year.
- harryjo 10y agoIt's relevant to the local context of the story. The time of year doesn't really matter, the season does.
- forgingahead 10y agoWell, this is Slate after all.
- aaron695 10y agoSlate is shit. But just because they have fallen doesn't mean you can make a statement that's crap about them, as per other comments.
- Rockslide 10y agoHow is giving inflation-adjusted values any better than statements like "since last year"? Both are relative to the time the article was written and thus no longer adequate some years later.
- manarth 10y ago> time-relative statements like "since last year" And then omitting the publication-date from the article.