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'excruciating detail [...], which is not something often find scams doing' Except for e.g. the small print in an EULA, or the XXXX pages Congress spending bill
by fatherzine 3y ago
'excruciating detail [...], which is not something often find scams doing'
Except for e.g. the small print in an EULA, or the XXXX pages Congress spending bills. There is definitely a bureaucratic technique of 'obfuscate through sheer volume of irrelevant information'.
- 2devnull 3y agoWho hasn’t done this. And now gpt can do it for us, for greater obfuscation at lower cost.
- nradov 3y agoWhich details of the CPI methodology do you think are irrelevant and should be omitted?
- fatherzine 3y agoScoping to food CPI to simplify the conversation, provided a link to the actual raw data, e.g. prices & relative weights over time (do you have such a link?), how do I sift through it to answer elementary questions about the cost trajectory of the daily caloric intake, with geographic and socioeconomic breakdown. On top of my head: * basic breakdown: grains, meat, veggies * processed vs. unprocessed * grocery sourced vs. eating out, largely fast food * sourcing, binned by log distance travelled * scenarios: Med diet? carnivore? vegetarian? On reflection, the core objection is that there is a subjective hidden parameter: the relative weights of different components. See e.g. https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm#item-replacement-and-quality-adjustment https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm#item-replac... I'd rather use my own weights.
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- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> provided a link to the actual raw data, e.g. prices & relative weights over time (do you have such a link?) Yes [1][2]. [1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/ https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/ [2] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/home.htm
- fatherzine 3y agoSplendid, thank you!