from Camlon
Again, you are thinking like a simpleton.
If true, that is about 100 IQ points above the level you seem to be operating at.
I told you why I am not comparing for more variables to find household income in each state. Because trying to do so will make it worse.
Only for your ideological position based on your own beliefs.
You will certainly end up with comparing for irrelevant variables, or dependent variables. Also, your results is extremely dependent on what factors you adjust for, and how you adjust for them. Your study make itself worthless by adjusting for factors such as the age of the state and unemployment rate.
All I insist on is comparing apples to apples and oranges to oranges. You reject that. I must say that in all my years I have never encountered anyone who defends a surface study over a detailed study. You take the prize for that.
You strongly DO NOT WANT TO COMPARE apples to apples and oranges to oranges. You simply want to go into the grocery store and make broad and sweeping statements about the average price of a grocery item compared to the average price of a grocery item in a different store. Don't confuse you with facts. To you it makes no difference that one grocery store A carries 6,000 different items while grocery store B contains but 1,000 different items. To you it makes no difference that store A is in a very upscale area while store B is in a economically depressed area. To you it makes no difference that store A caters to ethnic populations with different dietary needs that store B does. To you it makes no difference that store A was only recently built and is state of the art while store B is sixty years old and has not been remodeled in thirty five years. To you it makes no difference that store A is four times the size of store B.
So store B runs an ad which proclaims OUR PRICES ARE CHEAPER THAN STORE A.
In reality, their average price of a sum of all their items, they do have a point. However, when you examine the items both stores sell and exclude the low bargain basement line of store B and the expensive items of store A - here is what you discover
*** comparing the same 1 1/2 pound loaf of Brownberry rye bread - store A is fifteen cents cheaper than store B.
*** comparing the same 64 ounce size of Ocean Spray Apple juice - store A is thirty cents cheaper than store B.
*** comparing the same half-gallon of Sunk Kist orange juice - store A is twenty cents cheaper than store B.
And in 300 other common items that both stores sell - Store A is cheaper than store by by 7% over all.
Item to item of the same thing - store A is cheaper.
But you would support store B in their claim that their average price is cheaper.
Compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. Compare like workers also. If you do not - you are engaging in intellectual dishonest and outright fraud.
You personify the right wing zealot who is willing to skew information any way you have to skew it to "prove" your point.
I noticed that you completely ignored the grocery store comparison. Now if I did that you would make that a major issue in the next five pages of your posts.
And, you can rest your arms now and quite patting yourself on the back. I NEVER said that right to work states workers earn more. In fact, they earn less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
In summary, these statistics indicate that in RTW states, wages are 9.4% lower
Now I did cut out the next part about cost of living as a favor to you because you so do hate discussing any other fact beside the simple gross numbers. You are welcome.
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