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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

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Call it ” ‘ America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake. Since 2008, the Census Bureau has included government transfers in its Supplemental Poverty Measure. seconds to find 253,000,000 results on Google showing exactly how the government measures this. ” Was this ignorance? Wiifull misrepresentation? Sheer stupidity?

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How Xiaomi Does (Payments) Business In India

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As a business, we want to increase the share of prepaid transactions, but we have done the math and see that the COD transactions actually turn out to be cheaper than the prepaid transactions given our higher average transaction value. There are a lot of people who have traditionally used the COD option that have started moving to prepaid.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

We analyzed the data, where are students performing, where are they not performing? How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? And we study it and we’re maniacal about the data, where are we not fulfilling the needs, and then we adjust relative to that, similarly, what we do in investing. Where are we?

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2:00PM Water Cooler 12/16/2022 | naked capitalism

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He’s got a nonprofit called the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. And he calls this ’empiricism-washing;—where you take something that is a purely subjective, deeply troubling process, and just encode it in math and declare it to be empirical. It is math, but it’s practicing racial discrimination.

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