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Old 04-10-2007, 10:56 PM
GMontag GMontag is offline
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Default Re: The Truth About the Rich

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Math is hard, obv.

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No, but logic is for some apparently.

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What is this "threshold of time beyond which you are far less likely to change in status?? Is "the year 2000" such a threshold? I presume you're talking about an individual's age - and as far as I can tell, this data didn't control for age, so if anyone is making "unwarranted assumptions" it would be you.

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I was talking about the extinction, not the economic data. Usually when sentences are right next to each other, they are related.

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Point 2 supports the position you're attacking. This should be fairly intuitive.

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No it doesn't. Upward mobility doesn't imply downward mobility.

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I haven't made any assertion in this thread.

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There is a threshold of time beyond which you are far less likely to change status.

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Again, I was talking about the extinction. Try looking at statements actually within context next time.
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