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I just spent an hour and a half answering one part of one question for my Economic Development homework. I hate that "must show your work" has become such an educational default, as if that's the only method of verification possible. In this case, showing my work means making presentable (for this part of this problem only; there's more to come!) the data to calculate the geometric growth rate r = ((F/I)^(1/t))-1 for three variables (PPP GDP, Population, and PPP GDP per capita) of nine developing nations over four periods of time (1975-2005, and all decade-periods therein). How is making this data presentable productive? The questions could just as easily be answered by a single, messy, bloated table of data and formulae thrown together as it could be by a "presentable" data set.
I guess data arrangement and presentation is a skill to learn. Yet, I feel I already know it. I've exercised it many times for my own good as well as on the job with the Hollywood Theatre. I even arranged data while I was at Chipotle. The developmental economics stuff feels educational, but the rest of this is just burning time.
I guess data arrangement and presentation is a skill to learn. Yet, I feel I already know it. I've exercised it many times for my own good as well as on the job with the Hollywood Theatre. I even arranged data while I was at Chipotle. The developmental economics stuff feels educational, but the rest of this is just burning time.