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I'm sympathetic to the argument that there might be something unusual about the income distribution of the people who left San Francisco for various ski resort
by jrumbut 4y ago
I'm sympathetic to the argument that there might be something unusual about the income distribution of the people who left San Francisco for various ski resort towns but pulling a very specific number like $250k out of the air is weird.
The silliest part is that it doesn't change the argument. $196k is a good income, $250k is better but not qualitatively different by any means.
- jmeister 4y agoIt is not pulled out of thin air. It's Stanford/Hoover, if they have access to the mean they have access to the median, probably more fine grained data too.
- jrumbut 4y agoYou would think that, but the article text says otherwise: > the median income of taxpayers who left San Francisco would probably have been around $250,000. I am as puzzled as you, why not just calculate the median or email the people with the data and ask for it? Otherwise it feels like reaching for anything to embellish a partisan talking point.