This week I was a bit late taking my class so with about 18 hours left to finish this lesson Hemi and I sat down this afternoon to learn about income distribution in China and the West.
I have realized one advantage to procrastination – there’s already a lot of discussion over on the forums so a quick perusal gave me some insights of what specifically to watch for in the videos. For some reason my trick of speeding the lectures up to 125% wasn’t working so well this week due to audio quality so we watched in real time.
Lots of fact and figures this week and there was one tidbit that stood out. Looking at wealth inequality, the professor referenced the Occupy Wall Street movement and pointed out that it takes a net worth of $8 million or more to be in the top 1% of US households. Didn’t know that.
Assuming there’s little interest in percentages of homeownership and average net worth of various quartiles of the population, I’ll move on to the resolution of the disputed quiz question from last week. The professors did agree that the way the question was worded could lead to misinterpretation and tossed it out – that means I’m still at 100%.
The last lecture comes out at noon tomorrow so my quick little min-class will soon be over. I assume the assignment at the end of the next class will be the final exam. We’ll see how that goes!