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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Growth, vs. negative growth? Yeah, just a small difference.

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They appear to be saying there's <em>no difference</em> between a rolloff from 2.9% to -0.1% and a rolloff from 3.2% to 2.2%.

What the holy flying fuck? That argument makes them look even worse than the fact they can't use Excel.

They also complain that when the UMass students highlighted their arbitrary and unexplained exclusion of data that contradicted their findings, they didn't also mention other data they'd excluded that would have somewhat reinforced their findings further but <em>everybody</em> knew was shit. They still never explained why they excluded the data for Australia, Canada and New Zealand though, which <em>wasn't</em> shit.

They also blather on at extreme length that accusing them of using the bad bad mean was totally unfair because most of the time they talk about the median. This is utter horseshit because either way their data weighting methodology is weird and distorting (if successive years of data for a given country had broadly similar debt and growth, they counted the whole sequence as if it was just a single year).

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