• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    most of those in the lowest quintile are better off now than they were a year ago

    Yes, and on average each human has roughly 0.98 testicles.

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      8 months ago

      The goal of public policy is to benefit the public as a whole. So the average will always be a more useful metric than the experience of an individual, or even a hundred individuals.

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          8 months ago

          Except testicle coverage is a policy, not a valid metric. A valid metric is the outcome of a policy, like average deaths from testicular cancer.

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              8 months ago

              That wouldn’t work unless the only metric you cared about was deaths from testicular cancer.