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I believe this is a content-free presentation. It seems obvious that many of the facts presented are meaningless or are not provided in a proper context. "$11
by brg 16y ago
I believe this is a content-free presentation. It seems obvious that many of the facts presented are meaningless or are not provided in a proper context.
"$117,951 average debt" includes home mortgage. The poster states 95k of this is in mortgage and 2.2k in credit cards, but not where the other 20k is located.
"25% of people have no savings", while over 25% of the population is children.
"40% of working Americans are not saving for retirement", taking into account that working Americans include those between 18 and 35, I would say that is in line with expectation. We are not told if this counts those with pension funds payments from their employer.
"24% workers who have postponed their retirement age in the past year," which population is this a sample of? Are they only counting those whose retirement is imminent?
- jfarmer 16y agoI agree the "average debt" is a silly, but I assumed "25% have no savings at all" (note: it does not say "25% of people") meant "25% of working Americans," a continuation of the line item right above it.
- brg 16y agoYou may be correct, the lack of conjunction and my reading left to right, top to bottom conspired to introduce ambiguity in my interpretation.
- cynicalkane 16y agoIf it were possible to slap a [citation needed] on other peoples' infographics, this is when you would want to do it. In addition to the context-free nature of the 'facts' provided, I have a suspicion that at least some of them are outright wrong. (And if they were right, I'd want to know more. I'm sick of this culture where information exists in the form of blurbs, factoids and opinions.)
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- RK 16y ago"$117,951 average debt" includes home mortgage. The poster states 95k of this is in mortgage and 2.2k in credit cards, but not where the other 20k is located. Cars?
- bobbyi 16y agoAnd student loans.