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Originally Posted by woj
I think the graph wasn't created with all available data at the time...why was it cut off at 2005? and why start at 1948, rather than lets say 1938? If you start messing with the data like that, you can't trust the results you get...
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We could look it up and see if there was some kind of bias behind the dates?
Larry M. Bartels is a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton.
"Data in the graphs are calculated from the Historical Income Inequality Tables compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau."
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/incom...ity/index.html
It's possible the data provided only goes back to 1948. I downloaded one sampling and it only went back to 1967.