ravi wrote:
I think I sort of get what you mean, but I can read this in multiple ways. However it is best to leave it to you to elucidate... do you, in the totality of your posts, differentiate between different notions of 'numbers'? Or do you question the analytical validity of the calculations?
The following is the closest description presented:
Or are you concerned with the application of such analysis to the real world?
It's the interface between the numbers themselves, the vested interests of the people who PRESENT the numbers in promulgating certain interests, not neccesarily the same people who generate the numbers and do the math, (one example would be the mistaken belief that GM crops save farmers money... The ag companies squeezed those #s till they screamed with the help of the federal government, trade groups and bought-off bio-scientist lobbyers) and the real world. The real world is dynamic, multifaceted, and as Raghu pointed out helpfully, the median x is fixed, therefore representing one snapshot of economic reality in a given period of time. Useful if you take a series of these medians for trend analysis, but as single snapshots, number bites presented to the public, pretty useless, but often mis-leading. Leigh
