Thursday, September 20, 2012

People and percentages

Paul Krugman points out the fallacy of characterizing a group of people as a 47% bloc: people don't stay in the same situation for their whole lives. So a statistical percentage isn't equivalent to a group of actual human beings.

The exact same fallacy is committed by those who divide the country into "the 1%" and "the 99%."

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