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Whenever I see % increase as a headline you can be confident that its using percentages in order to make a misleading point. Sure enough a few paragraphs down:
by x87678r 6y ago
Whenever I see % increase as a headline you can be confident that its using percentages in order to make a misleading point.
Sure enough a few paragraphs down:
> It should be noted that San Francisco had an unusually low inventory relative to other large cities prior to the pandemic.
Maybe there are a lot of people selling, but you can ignore this particular stat.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI’m not sure it’s reasonable to entirely ignore a statistic because it could be skewed by other factors. There’s no quick way to directly measure the net outflow, so if we want to anticipate the problem in advance potentially misleading data is all we’ve got.
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- dang 6y agoThis comment was posted about a different article (we merged two threads). Explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24179898 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24179898