tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399132.post6881108941376897943..comments2024-03-04T08:09:21.453-08:00Comments on Richard's Real Estate and Urban Economics Blog: The banal moderateness of Thomas Friedman.Richard Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02161226214739034402noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399132.post-56018809199839236822012-01-24T02:39:33.848-08:002012-01-24T02:39:33.848-08:00I think the absolute values doesn't show anyth...I think the absolute values doesn't show anythingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33399132.post-41584625752227978822012-01-23T10:09:29.935-08:002012-01-23T10:09:29.935-08:00Ezra's 1st law economics blogs: it is ok to no...Ezra's 1st law economics blogs: it is ok to not pay attention to a post with a VBG, very bad graph<br />when you have time series data, and you want to show changes (slope) you can't plot values that differ a lot on the y axis on a linear scale, as the low values dont show a slope<br />eg, if there were a group of people who made 100$ a year, even a huge % increase in income wouldn't show up on a linear graph.<br />I'm not even a professor, and I could figure this out on my own with excel.Soccer Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10745967553131454562noreply@blogger.com