Headline Statistics 3: Two Countries, One Gini, Opposite Policies
Disclosure: this post was written with the assistance of an AI system (Claude), which wrote the analysis code, ran the experiments and drafted the text. The topic, the constraints, the data choices and the final review are the author’s. Take one lognormal population and distort it twice: the poorest tenth loses 90% of its income, or the richest hundredth has its income multiplied by 2.51. Tuned to the same Gini, both land on 0....