Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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I’m firmly left brained according to this. What did it conclude about you?
October 12th, 2007 at 6:10 pm
i can’t make her go anti-clockwise……frustrating!
October 12th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Hey, I got her to go clockwise!
October 12th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Right. Oddly right.
October 15th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Yeah, I’m pretty strong right. Not what I would have expected. Can’t begin to get her to go the other way…
October 15th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
The easiest way to get her to switch for me is to look down at her feet. I’ve read this in a few comment threads around the net, so there might be something to it. Also, changing my angle to the screen also seemed to help.
October 15th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Finally got her to turn the other way if I looked away and only viewed it in peripheral vision until she turned. Couldn’t sustain it, though…
October 21st, 2007 at 7:19 am
she goes both ways for me, rarely doing a full circle. I have to concentrate on her reasonably hard to get her to do a full rotation either way. I thought perhaps I was completely insane, was happy with this notion but decided to test it either way. Went and did a few online right-left brained tests (conclusive, I know, must believe everything you do on the net) and on all tests I am equally left and right brained. Aren’t I the special one. Wonder if there’s an award for me, or maybe a mensa type institution.