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In response to "nobody's defaulting to anything. it's a biased study -- nm" by moles

just because it isn't describing what you think it should be, doesn't mean the data is biased in and of itself.

Posted by znufrii Feb 24 '11, 11:16

All it's saying is what percentage of ther income residents of each state pay to state and local governments in taxes. Whether that data is particularly valuable in any context or discussion about tax policy (surprise, it really isn't) is completely irrelevant to what the data is actually representing

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do you understand why a resident of New York or California might be more likely to pay more taxes in all 50 states than someone in N. Dakota or Idaho? - moles Feb 24, 11:19 6
- It's an attempt to correct for states that have large leisure industries. - spamlet Feb 24, 11:25 4
  - And if that's the argument you want to make, this data is useless. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 11:27 3
    - The NY/NJ argument? -- nm - spamlet Feb 24, 11:31 2
      - they *really* like to travel in those states! -- nm - moles Feb 24, 11:34
      - as a critique of any individual state's tax policy, really, but yes. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 11:33
- certainly, and I think your criticisms are completely valid as far as how useful this data really is. - znufrii Feb 24, 11:23
(note: I didn't ready any of the attached materials, so I have no idea whether they were drawing biased conclusions from the data.) - znufrii Feb 24, 11:18

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just because it isn't describing what you think it should be, doesn't mean the data is biased in and of itself.

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