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Re:In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a v... by tchalla on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:59AM (#25658826)
It's fine to take another normalisation metric - no metric is perfect. The point was that there is a normalisation needed. Far too often I see a comment which states, "Oh! It is just 1$ so cheap!". I chose PPP because it is meant for making parities. So, 9cents may or may not be cheap. We don't know until we use a normalisation factor.
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Re:In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a v... by iguy on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:09AM (#25658935)
People talk about dog-years too, but past some very crude level there's no avoiding knowing something about about the lives of dogs, or parrots, or goldfish. At which point it's less confusing to use ordinary earth-years for everyone.
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Re:In India, smartphones and cheap data are giving women a v... by tchalla on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:15AM (#25659017)
"It is better to be vaguely right and than precisely wrong".
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