"Peter Charles" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:20:05 -0500, "Wayne Knight"
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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charities. The #1 state, most generous that is, is Mississippi. The
least
generous? NY, VT, MA, and CT.

Source?

http://www.afpnet.org/tier3_print.cf...tem_id=144 31



As I suspected, the poor states, having relatively lower populations
and low mean icomes, are distorted by the donations of the high income
earners in those states. This site has the answer in it's
spreadsheets of over $200K and all returns. The high income earners
in these poor states are amongst the largest givers. That has a
disporpotionate effect vs. wealthy states. In high income states, the
largest earners don't have the same distorting effects. Too bad they
don't have a spreadsheet for the under $200K returns as that would be
far more meaningful.

It's the problem when mean is used to produce an index like this.

Peter

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Or it could be another dynamic at work.... poor folk, knowing what it feels
like to be poor, have a stronger motivation to give.