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5 days agoThey are not excluded, it’s just the the number of people is used, not the amount of money
They are not excluded, it’s just the the number of people is used, not the amount of money
For Harris, yes. For Biden: just “not anymore”. Which can happen when you have geriatric folks doing this kind of job.
I’m pretty sure they’ll do increasingly farcical votes for some time after.
If you use median, removing or not of 1000 people from a pool of millions indeed has zero impact. My guess is that they worded it like that because they assume people don’t knownwhat a median is, so they describe the practical effect