It's striking how much social analysis is made based on numbers no one cared to check
It's striking how much social analysis is made based on numbers no one cared to check https://t.co/dlPGpYx9lZ
@StefanFSchubert Well, if by "social analysis" you mean Twitter shitposting. This would be something I would call social analysis: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
@StefanFSchubert Yeah, if you can't be bothered with checking the most suspicious data, why do you even bother forming an opinion and defend it in public? Probably to signal to other techies that you are so pro-tech and you hate EU that, according them, impedes the progress.
@StefanFSchubert Your alternative figures show an ever wider gap with the US though
@StefanFSchubert The point "American houses are way bigger" remains unchanged.
@StefanFSchubert Europeans reading that convo during their paid holidays while planning how will they spend the rest of the mandatory 3 weeks of paid leave.
@StefanFSchubert According to this analysis, nomads are the richest people in the world, because their house is literally the entire world.
@StefanFSchubert I meant to make the “but the European areas are in sq meters” joke. I hope someone else did. But as usual there are a lot of choices in how you measure home size, would be nice to really dig into measurement here.
@StefanFSchubert Additionally, dwelling size is not the ultimate index of standard of living! Personally, we could afford a place twice the size of the one we have (here in the countryside) but we don’t need it
@StefanFSchubert american houses are stupid big