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I'm amazed that an NYT writer could have made such a big mistake and that no one on their staff detected it. The graph shows the poorest 20% of Indian society.
by credo 16y ago
I'm amazed that an NYT writer could have made such a big mistake and that no one on their staff detected it.
The graph shows the poorest 20% of Indian society. Within that group, the richest people (i.e. people at the 20th percentile) have incomes comparable to America's poorest.
Unfortunately, the writer seems to have ignored the fact that the richest 80% of Indians aren't covered in the graph.