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assortment of figures for a specific year, we averaged them.
1992 was an estimate. Years after 1992 are our estimates on
a predicted growth rate of 1%, as the average growth rate of
all the averaged figures from 1972-1992 was exactly 1.00%.
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past few decades, you might be aware that if a report said a
certain monetary figure was up 10% during one decade, it was
prudent to check to see if the figures took the inflationary
trends into account to tell you the actual value a figure in
one year might represent would actually be less than figures
which counted more value in lesser numbers of dollars in the
previous decade.
You would think from this report that the average kid had 5%
greater chances of getting a Grade School Diploma in 91 than
in 81. . .but. . .it turns out that it was just the opposite
because the population was 1.097352 times larger in 91, than
it had been in 1981. . .which is about 10% larger, thus in a
"real education" sense, in the same way the monetary reports
are given in "real dollars" or "constant dollars," education
was actually moving in just the opposite direction, and thus
was DOWN about 5% instead of UP about 5% from 1981 to 1991.
Remember, these were not from years quoted in the report and
the figures were not exactly 5% or 10% respectively, nor the
diploma referred to was not a Grade School Diploma, but they
are pretty close to being exact, in terms of the percentages
and years; much closer than you might expect.
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