3 comments on “Fun With Numbers

  1. How sad to think of the difference between the average income vs. the average value. People keep saying that the number of ‘middle income’ families are disappearing with the gap between low and high becoming more prevalent.

  2. I agree – there is an inequity. But for some reason this reminds me of Mark Twain’s example of how just looking at the bare numbers can be misleading:

    “In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore … in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long … seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long… There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

    But I still think your observation is on the mark.

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