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Originally Posted by Brujah
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. |
You are partially right, earliest is 1947 (Table: F-1 All Races) but still that table goes to 2008, so last 3 years were clearly omitted...
And if you look at the data from 2005-2008, you will notice the following income changes between 2005-2008:
lowest = 8.5%
second = 9.6%
third = 9.8%
fourth = 9.8%
top 5% = 8.4%
So actually, the data in that date range contradicts the results of the study, and so that's why it was mysteriously omitted...
