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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

Misleading with statistics can certainly be done in some contexts, but it's harder to do that than it is to be wrong with just 'I have a gut feel bro'. The breakdown by income quartile here is, like, directly the narrative that the stats are intended to support and clearly a larger impact that immigration because... Well.. Quartiles are quite big...