Posts by Sacha
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
There is nothing in their data about foreign investors - because NZ does not collect that detail. They have used some sound statistical work to get to their intermediate results, then nothing more than guessing from there.Do read Thomas Lumley's post.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to
Rob has given more detail today: http://polity.co.nz/content/how-labour-estimated-ethnicity-surnames
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
this analysis clearly shows massive overrepresentation of people from one group.
and that group is only 'people with Chinese surnames'. There is no way to go from there to 'foreign investors' that is not just statistically bogus guesswork. Read Thomas Lumley's post about it.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
if you think the analysis comes to fundamentally incorrect conclusions, just say so. Why can't you just say so?
I did. Learn to troll better.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
Labour is talking about one nationality (NOT ethnicity)
It is ethnicity. Do read Rob Salmond's post on the methodology.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
Another strange idea is the idea that any analysis that looks at race and ethnicity must therefore be racist.
If Labour were talking about all foreign investors not just one ethnicity of them, you might have a point. You don't.
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
Can anyone on this blog, Keith Ng included, claim that the conclusions of this analysis are fundamentally incorrect?
People have been pointing out that there is an unresolved logical leap between 'has Chinese surname' and 'is foreign investor'. Pretty major weakness wih the argument.
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Speaker: Identification strategy: Now…, in reply to
and Mr Edgeler's comment on that post gets to the heart of the problem.
Is there a separate statistical explanation for how you got from the imputed ethnicity to the asserted non-residency of house purchasers?
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to
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Polity: House-buying patterns in Auckland, in reply to
a steady flow of cheap funding
yep. and unrestrained by any sensible government action in either nation.
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