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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by stouset on Thursday July 21, 2016 @10:52PM (#12141444)
The absolute difference in dollars scales ridiculously high though once you start getting above 90%ile though. Going by percentile practically makes it a logarithmic scale.
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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by xapata on Friday July 22, 2016 @01:39AM (#12141905)
> Going by percentile practically makes it a logarithmic scale

In theory as well. Small changes of the log of a variable are approximately equivalent to small percent-changes.

Edit: Though percentile is a little different than percent-change.

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