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Thomas Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies

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The Failure to Compare Apples to Apples

The bottom 20% of the household distribution has twice as many people as the top 20%, which seems impossible. One of the problems is that the tendency to look at statistical categories as if you're talking about flesh and blood human beings, he says.

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