short end of the stick--yeahright

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At 01:22 PM 11/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>John Halle:
>
>
>>  It also matters whether there really is the large differential
>>between increases in black and white p.c. income-with the latter getting
>>the short end of the stick.
>
>short end of the stick?  what?  look, if black incomes start out as *far 
>lower* than whites, when there is an economic boom it is reasonable to 
>expect that their incomes are going to go up disproportionately.  make sense.
>
>like so, as an example
>
>white guy makes   10.00 hour in 1980
>white guy makes    12.00 hour in 1990

errr that should have been

11.20

duh


>% change: +12%
>
>black guy makes  8.00 hour in 1980
>black guy makes 10.00 hour in 1990
>
>% change: +25%
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>>So maybe even the census numbers are cooked-I wouldn't know, though Doug
>>certainly seems to think otherwise.
>>
>>Don't mean to harp on this but it really does matter whether the economic
>>boom has elevated at least some of those at the bottom or whether this
>>impression is a statistical fiction perpetuated by establishment
>>economics. It also matters whether there really is the large differential
>>between increases in black and white p.c. income-with the latter getting
>>the short end of the stick.
>>
>>John
>
>
>look, i know the numbers of incarcerated have risen dramatically over a 
>decade. but the numbers you are talking are *too* small to make a 
>difference overall in terms of the N that constitutes the census.  it just 
>wouldn't have that big an effect.
>
>cooked numbers:  they were cooked in 1980 too.  so you're comparing cooked 
>numbers to other cooked numbers.