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I strongly disagree it's the right graph. I wonder if you're just trolling at this point. Comparing growth rates of countries by looking at absolute values of
by mlyle 6y ago
I strongly disagree it's the right graph. I wonder if you're just trolling at this point. Comparing growth rates of countries by looking at absolute values of dollars from countries of different sizes is madness.
I've given you 5 different framings at this point:
* Real GDP PPP % change over 30, 20, and 10 years to the most recent fully reported year.
* Share of high-income country GDP over last 20 years
* Per capita PPP GDP over 30 years, where it slid from parity with Germany in 2005 to about 80% of Germany's.
But they're all bad in favor of looking at a linear scale graph, where starting from a higher value in the green series obscures that the percentage of growth is low compared to most of the members of the set.
If you're determined to believe a specific conclusion, there's not much point in discussion.
- nwienert 6y agoThe second graph I posted is GDP PPP, please tell me how the light blue line is an outlier.