----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 11:32 PM Subject: Re: Plus the NY Times Re: The Washington Post Editorial on Iraq
>We find, not surprisingly, that whites do > better than the overall population. But, the median income (actually the > mean income of the middle 20%, but they should be fairly close) of white > families increased only 6.7% from '80 (Carter's last year) to '92 (Bush's > last year). The mean income of the top 5% increased 36%. Oops, I accidently did families instead of households here. I'll do households because that was the number I've been quoting. For households, the median income rose 5% between 80 and 92, while the income of the top 5% rose 33%. It doesn't change the conclusion that can be drawn from the information, but I didn't want to throw another variable in. Finally, a quick note on the difference between science and social science. While helping my wife with her thesis, I saw that it is relatively easy to note correlation in data but often all but impossible to determine the arrow of causality. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
