Fake London is lovely in the winter. You could go on a walk beside the frozen fake thames river. Or go for a ski on fake Byron mountain.

Mo' money, Mo' problems..... that are funded to be researched and published

Inflation has outpaced many people working class wages. It’s not just this years inflation, it’s inflation overtime

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The range is compressed by use of a log scale. The y axis is ln(papers per million people). Switzerland has five times as many papers per capita as Japan, but on a log scale it's 8.6 vs. 6.9.

Edit: This was in response to a comment expressing surprise that there was very little difference in output among wealthy countries.

Housing affordability is a huge topic, so there's a lot of it there on this. Since, you didn't say what country you're interested in, I'm going to go ahead and assume the U.S., because that's what I know. I imagine many of these sources have correlaries in other countries though.

Many of the variables you listed are available through the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (population, income, housing prices, rent burden).

I'm less familiar with it, but FRED Economic Data may be able to give you more information on the interest rate side.

Housing supply and construction can be trickier to get at. A lot of places track new construction but it's often behind a paywall -- and this is often tracked by real estate professionals so there's sometimes some bias built in. The Census Bureau has a report on New Residential construction, but I haven't found it overwhelming accurate when you get down to the smaller geographies. If you have a specific place you're interested in, you may be able to get information on total residential buildings/units from the local assessor's (sometimes auditors) office. Building permits are often used as a proxy for new housing construction, though it often requires some careful cleaning, and may be publicly available from the local gov's building/planning department. A lot of states and municipalities have data portal websites which can usually be found by googling "(place name) open data."

Or if you just want some stats on American housing, Harvard has a commonly cited report: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/state-nations-housing-2022

Though there's a lot more out there too. Good luck!

As a Bears fan, can I root for Jefferson while still wanting the Vikings, and Cousins specifically, to lose?

People aren’t becoming poorer

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It literally is showing the number of people in each category :) haha

That’s what the percentiles represent

Something showing the relative numbers of people in each percentile over time would make this more interesting. If there are people moving up overall, that’s a good outcome.

"May the odds be ever in your favor!"

> it means that the people responding are overrating themselves

Only if you assume that gift-giving ability is normally distributed. It doesn't have to be...

80% of people think they are smarter than the average person.

Causation might be going the other way. Places with high GDPs have more money to fund science. Qatar and other oil countries being the prime example.

The data shows a disproportionate amount of wealth increasing for people the richest among us.

That’s the issue.

It’s fine for everyone’s life to get exponentially better. But it’s not cool when a small percentage of people are becoming obscenely more wealthy while most people become poorer

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Important note that wealth is not a zero sum game. There isn't a finite amount of it to go around. It's possible for everyone to get wealthier on average, and the data appears to reflect this.

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I am, without question or hesitation, a terrible gift giver.

When it’s contentious how does it tend to look? Specifically, with how good to you fuck?

In true average of 50 I’d say I’m a 60. In highschool grade score I’d say I’m a 78

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