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From:
[log in to unmask]" href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" _mce_href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Tony Greenfield
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: A new approach to the
median
Instead of whittering on about
meaning of median, shall we try to help the poor sod who finds himself
reclining on a bed of nails.
In his Telegraph article, he pleaded
for help:
" provide an index that helps
voters concentrate on how successful we are in improving the chances of
poorer children".
Can you do that, taking into the
index all the factors he mentioned, plus a minimum allowed low end of income
and an aim to reduce the total range of all incomes from ?
He has presented a problem that is
much more worthy of your combined intellects than the meaning of one
word,
Cheers
Tony
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Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:22
PM
Subject: Re: A new approach to the
median
> The same mistake was reported many years
ago in RSS News and Notes which
> quoted an extract from Hanzard,
November 1991, where three MPS debated
> this issue. I pinched it
for teaching purposes and you can read it on
>
> http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/msc/clinbio/week1/summex.pdf
>
> Martin
>
> John Bibby
wrote:
>> Humph said something similar on 'Today' (not today). I
think what they
>> may mean is "As incomes in general rise, the
median rises".
>>
>> The LibCon policy-direction
seems to be away from relative poverty
>> (x% of average) back to
some absolute measure. Does this take us back
>> to Rowntree, or
even further?
>>
>> JOHN
BIBBY
>>
>>
>> On 7 June 2010 10:45, Paul Spicker
<[log in to unmask]
>> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
wrote:
>>
>> Following
correspondence on the Social Policy Jiscmail list,
I've
>> just been looking at a statement by
Frank Field in the Daily
>> Telegraph, where
he says this:
>>
>> "Any candidate sitting GCSE maths should
be able to explain that
>> raising everybody
above a set percentage of median income is
>>
rather like asking a cat to catch its own tail. As families
are
>> raised above the target level of
income, the median point itself
>>
rises."
>>
>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/7803983/Poverty-is-about-much-more-than-money.html
>>
>> As Groucho Marx once said, "Any two year
old can understand this.
>> Fetch me a two
year old."
>>
>> Paul
Spicker
>>
>>
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