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It strikes me that local inequality (e.g. between people in the same country) could be increasing everywhere, while global inequality, which is dominated by nat
by kurthr 7y ago
It strikes me that local inequality (e.g. between people in the same country) could be increasing everywhere, while global inequality, which is dominated by national averages decreases. The problem is that we mostly notice the local one (happiness with the Jones's) rather than the global.
- Gibbon1 7y agoSimpson's Paradox tells us that this is utterly plausible. Inequality is getting worse everywhere. While aggregate statistics shows inequality is decreasing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox