Posts by Mike Graham
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Graeme - sorry, I'm just highlighting my ignorance. When I hear 'Mike Smith' I think of a chain-saw and a hill in Auckland.
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Mike Smith? I presume you mean Mike Williams!
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(along with Chris Slane's cartoons)
Agreed!
I enjoyed Tom Scott's writing/cartoon in the Listener - but now I'm showing my age.
The Sports columns of Joseph Romanos were always worth a read, whereas Paul Lewis never really seems to say anything.
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Thanks Paul, now I've got some more TLA's to confuse people with.
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OTA PVR, DIY, PC, CD, FV, MPEG4, TV, NZ, DVB-T, EPG, US, QAM, DVB, ATSC.
WTF!!!
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Yeah, on the rare occasion I watch SKY (e.g., in hotels)
I hope that it's not while you're on a taxpayer-funded junket with a Govt dept in a flash resort! :-)
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A more fruitful avenue to pursue ... Fix that problem, and you might save the lives of some other children.
Well said David.
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My excuse - the QV figures that were in the news yesterday are average prices. (I hate being wrong!)
My apologies to the REINZ.
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You just made me factcheck you.
oops. My anti real estate agent bias is showing through.
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Averages are simple tools ... and can be useful in many situations.
but in many situations create distortions. Another recent example is (in my view) the way the Real Estate Institute is always quoting average sale prices etc., where the median would probably give a more realistic picture. However, I suspect the average real estate agent (and journalist) wouldn't understand the difference between the mean and the median.