User talk:Abject Normality

A belated welcome!

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! If you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page, consult Wikipedia:Questions, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Again, welcome! Gurt Posh (talk) 06:47, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Statistical variations

A couple of things about your section and post on my page. First your section -- and discussion about the finer points of measuring inequality in general -- really belongs in this article: Income inequality metrics.

Second Wikipedia has to be written in an "encyclopedic" manner (see [1]) and provide what they call "Reliable Sources" (see WP:RS) for statements of anything contentious. So you can't say
"Various methods are used to determine income inequality and result in statistically misleading information,"
and then give no citation. There is also a restriction on what is called original research. so saying in effect "if you look at this contradiction between the CIA and Census bureau data, you can see statistically misleading information is at work" is a no go.
["The methods are obviously different if the ratio resultants are the same. Figures for 2007 are as follows: The Census Bureau states "Share of aggregate income received by households" Lowest 20% = 3.4% of total income and the highest 20% = 49.7%, a ratio of 14.62 to 1. (Reference 1) The CIA Fact Book states "Household income or consumption by percentage share" Lowest 10% = 2.0% of total income and highest 10% = 30.0%, a ratio of 15 to 1. (Reference 2)"]
If you find a statistician in a peer reviewed journal saying that THEN we can include it.

That being said, I've tried to summarize what I could find supportable in your section and add it here in the Measurement section. --BoogaLouie (talk) 00:40, 20 February 2013 (UTC)