Comments on: Don’t overgeneralize about 2.5 billion people http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/10/dont-overgeneralize-about-2-5-billion-people/ Human evolution, genetics, genomics and their interstices Sat, 26 May 2012 00:28:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Sailer http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/10/dont-overgeneralize-about-2-5-billion-people/comment-page-1/#comment-96757 Steve Sailer Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:05:24 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=14194#comment-96757 Thanks. Most informative. Thanks. Most informative.

]]> By: ohwilleke http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/10/dont-overgeneralize-about-2-5-billion-people/comment-page-1/#comment-95701 ohwilleke Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:22:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=14194#comment-95701 I'd be curious to know just how strongly some of the socio-economic standard correlates of linked to each other in either absolute or relative terms. How good a proxy for other variables, for example, is fertility or PPP? I’d be curious to know just how strongly some of the socio-economic standard correlates of linked to each other in either absolute or relative terms. How good a proxy for other variables, for example, is fertility or PPP?

]]> By: Eerikki http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/10/dont-overgeneralize-about-2-5-billion-people/comment-page-1/#comment-95656 Eerikki Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:09:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=14194#comment-95656 You should consider using the non-PPP-data as well. PPP is not a good comparison when comparing different countries as it gets higher with cheap labour force (and thus lowers the European mesurement even though the whole world is very cheap to Europeans to travel). Poland is not a very good European comparison as it is post-socialist country and thus much lower in GDP than most other EU countries. You should consider using the non-PPP-data as well. PPP is not a good comparison when comparing different countries as it gets higher with cheap labour force (and thus lowers the European mesurement even though the whole world is very cheap to Europeans to travel).

Poland is not a very good European comparison as it is post-socialist country and thus much lower in GDP than most other EU countries.

]]> By: Handle http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/10/dont-overgeneralize-about-2-5-billion-people/comment-page-1/#comment-95593 Handle Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:55:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=14194#comment-95593 Makes you wonder how granular US GDPPC would fit on those graphs, maybe at the county or zip-code level. What I really want to see is something like "local real personal income less external government (state or federal) transfer payments per capita" to get a feel for the actual private output and productivity of the people in any particular area. My guess is that there are plenty of US areas that have not much more per-capita production than what we usually consider to be very poor places throughout the world. Makes you wonder how granular US GDPPC would fit on those graphs, maybe at the county or zip-code level. What I really want to see is something like “local real personal income less external government (state or federal) transfer payments per capita” to get a feel for the actual private output and productivity of the people in any particular area. My guess is that there are plenty of US areas that have not much more per-capita production than what we usually consider to be very poor places throughout the world.

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