{"id":8713,"date":"2011-05-16T05:35:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=8713"},"modified":"2011-05-16T05:35:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T10:35:20","slug":"fun-with-dick-and-janes-bar-graph-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8713","title":{"rendered":"Fun With Dick and Jane&#039;s Bar-Graph Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whoisgregg.com\/blog\/blog\/2011\/05\/13\/even-more-fun-with-charts-making-the-poor-look-rich\/\">Even More Fun With Charts: Making the Poor Look Rich<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lies, damned lies and statistics brought to life in the tale of three bar graphs.<\/p>\n<p>From one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-chait\/88172\/does-the-middle-class-have-all-the-money\">included links<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]f you add up all the lines of income over $200,000, you get around $2 trillion. (I may be off, because I&#8217;m eyeballing it, but I&#8217;m not off by much.) That obviously far exceeds the nearly $1.4 trillion accruing to the $100-200,000 set. And it undermines rather than bolsters (though does not disprove) Reihan&#8217;s argument that &#8220;the <em>collective<\/em> political influence of the upper-middle-class is greater than that of the ultra-rich.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s true that the collective influence of the middle class is greater than that of the rich.  If our foundational principles included &#8220;one economic class, one vote,&#8221; there might be a point to the WSJ graph.  But since it&#8217;s one <em>person<\/em>, one vote, you have to normalize the income by the number of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even More Fun With Charts: Making the Poor Look Rich Lies, damned lies and statistics brought to life in the tale of three bar graphs. From one of the included links [I]f you add up all the lines of income &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/8713\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}