Constantine ([info]soulbain) wrote,
@ 2009-04-19 20:28:00
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Tom Delay can fuck himself
Delay Claims Poorer-than-Average Texas is “Wealthy” Because Texans “Work Hard”

Tom Delay advocates secession, claims Texas is super rich. This is of course because Tom Delay uses median income as a ranking, which is heavily skewed by all the super rich bastards living here. But if you look at it as income per capita, which is the amount of income per person in the state, we come up pretty fucking poor.



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[info]alteredmana
2009-04-21 09:32 pm UTC (link)
Median isn't skewed by super rich at all. The problem is actually that the median income still puts us lower than half. Our median income is 28th but our average(per capita) puts us at 21. So median here is the good indicator. The reason oil wealth increases the median is because of the associated jobs from harvesting the oil.

Example:
The median of 1, 1, 3, 5, 5 and the median of 1, 1, 3, 5, 5000000000000 are both 3.

Another way to put it is that if three guys came to Texas making 10k/year and another three came making our GNP/year, the median would stay the same.

Tom Delay just uses "imaginary bullshit" as his ranking, or he thinks that 28th best is rich. He is pretty stupid so that might be true.
(apologies for mathnerdery)

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