Eugine_Nier comments on Political ideas meant to provoke thought - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 July 2014 12:50:19AM 2 points [-]

A possibility that the paper does not raise is that instead of calculating the actual wealth held by the actual top 1%, you could estimate the Gini coefficient from the whole population, and calculate a theoretical 1% wealth.

Taleb would probably object on the grounds that the above will lead misleading results if the population is actually composed of a supper position of several distinct populations with different Gini coefficients.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 03 July 2014 03:51:35PM 1 point [-]

His paper does go into these and other elaborations of the basic point.