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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 9798699" data-attributes="member: 75787">[USER=42856]@Jfdlsjfd[/USER] -- as a data professional with several decades of experience in this area, here are some suggestions on how to make your arguments more helpful. The large wall of info you produced above will be -- and I'd argue should be -- ignored by most people. Here are some ways to make it more useful:Use a small set of measures as your main metrics. Use the same aggregation in every chart and statistic unless there is a compelling reason to do otherwise<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For this discussion, your metric should be wages / CPI. (Inflation adjusted wages). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You aggregation function must be the median. This data is highly skewed, so means are at best unhelpful and at worst deliberately misleading.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Please for the love of everything don't say "the median and the average" -- it makes it look like you think the only average is the mean. Instead say "both averages, the mean and the median,"</li> </ul>Cite every chart and table<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For this data, all the US data should come form the BLS or entities using BLS data.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For other countries, use their official stats office or entities using that data.</li> </ul>----------Most of your charts are about income, which is irrelevant to this discussion (if you want to make it relevant, be prepared for a lot of work to define what income is in a meaningful way. Ignoring investment income is a classic way for people to say "see, rich people actually do pay fair taxes", for example). Your data is mostly uncited, so I cannot trust it. And you switch between means and medians continuously (hint: charts showing "fractions of" or "shares of" are all about sums of data, which are relevant only to discussion of means, not medians).A good way to organize your argument is to focus on a single set of data, show a key chart or table and then a few examples that add detail to your argument. That makes it more likely you'll have a productive discussion.</blockquote>

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