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They haven’t decreased in price. The feds instead say, essentially, “hybrid cars and airbags didn’t exist when this metric was invented, so to compare apples to
by garmaine 5y ago
They haven’t decreased in price. The feds instead say, essentially, “hybrid cars and airbags didn’t exist when this metric was invented, so to compare apples to apples we’ll guess at what a 1960’s car would cost if it were made today today” and then invents a number.
- rsj_hn 5y agoA better description of what they do is to make a list of the features that car Modern has and car Old doesn't. Say the airbag. Or anti-lock breaks. Then they look at how much it costs car Modern to add the airbag, using manufacturer's cost of producing that feature. Or how much it costs to have anti-lock breaks. Then they subtract that from the price of car Modern to try to get an apple to apple baseline of how much it would take to produce car Modern without the feature. Note that this process is not a hedonic adjustment, it's a production cost adjustment, which is what is used to deflate the price of cars.
- garmaine 5y agoIt’s not how costs and prices work though.
- Thorrez 5y agoThen nimos's second link is pretty useless to me. I want to know for example the price in dollars of a typical TV over time. I don't want to know the price in dollars/pixel of a typical TV over time. A graph comparing dollars/pixel of TVs to the price of college doesn't make sense to me.