But this thread has drifted far from reality. It began with Lumifer’s comment about estimates of historical poverty:
The charts posted claim to reflect the entire world and they go back to early XIX century. Whole-world data at that point is nothing but a collection of guesstimates.
To which MattG replied:
My understanding is you basically get a bunch of economists in the room to break down the problem into relevant parts, then get a bunch of historians in the room, calibrate them, get them to give credible intervals for the relevant data, and plug it all in to the model.
Lumifer:
Is this how you think it works or is this how you think it should work?
MattG:
It’s how I think it works.
And the conversation drifted into the stratosphere with no further discussion of where those numbers actually came from.
Consensus is the result, not the means.
But this thread has drifted far from reality. It began with Lumifer’s comment about estimates of historical poverty:
To which MattG replied:
Lumifer:
MattG:
And the conversation drifted into the stratosphere with no further discussion of where those numbers actually came from.