St. wrote:
>>>> It's not that you know lots of doctors. It's that you ignore all the 
>>>> poor people who you pass every day.
>>>      That was a low call.
>> Perhaps I phrased it wrong. It's that you're not conciously counting all 
>> the people who aren't making $400K that you pass each day, because they're 
>> not exceptional in your mind. (That's what "selection bias" means, in some 
>> sense.)
> 
>      You're not making sense.

That's because you're taking the conversation completely out of context.

In this context, if you actually look, "poor" is the 98th percentile and 
lower. "Poor" as opposed to "filthy rich."  "Poor" as in "I know lots of 
people making more than $328K a year, so there couldn't possibly be 99% 
of the country making less than that."

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

Post a reply to this message