The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Coming Demographic Storm

Chapter 15. Quit Picking on the Xers!

What would you think hearing someone criticize a group of 500 people for their poor turnout at the polls compared to another group of a thousand? What if this critic also found fault with this group of 500 for not contributing the same amount of money to their political parties and for not helping out at campaign headquarters like the group of a thousand? You would no doubt see an unreasonable critic with a math problem.

But wait. Don’t we do this everyday? We compare groups and draw incorrect conclusions because we do not consider size.