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Originally Posted by spence
Huh? I think you're misreading ScottW's post.
There are two ways to interpret one element of the data in the chart. That I jumped to one over the other has for some reason consumed you...so much so that you're missing the point.
The cartoon is intentionally misleading.
-spence
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"Huh? I think you're misreading ScottW's post. "
Guilty as charged.
"There are two ways to interpret one element of the data in the chart. "
The one way that anyone who understands numbers would interpret it, is to say spending is 40% more than it used to be. You tried to use your interpretation, whatever it was, to refute that. You were wrong.