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The content of the article looks at trends: it looks at productivity in countries tending to be at one end of the hours worked scale versus productivity of coun
by lucideer 8y ago
The content of the article looks at trends: it looks at productivity in countries tending to be at one end of the hours worked scale versus productivity of countries at the other. Comparing a Mexico and Costa Rica directly wouldn't work but looking at the tendency for those countries to trend toward one side of the scale does.
- em500 8y agoThose are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years. What the article does and what you're describing are cross-country comparisons in a single year, just at the opposing tails of the distribution.
- lucideer 8y ago> Those are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years I think you may be choosing an arbitrarily narrow definition of the word "trend". A typical definition[0] is "an inclination in a particular direction" [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trend https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trend