Reply #10: This is dumb... [View All]

[MrPrax]

From top label 'different ways of looking at using these factors, as well as an examination of how mobility changed in recent decades'...

How does this show 'mobility' has changed since there is no relative figures? I mean if I punched in an electrician, HS (note: no technical or trade school designation), 100k with 100k-500k in assets (wealth) it tells me 69% percentile, right now?

In order to gauge mobility, it should also state what that percentile would have been in 1995, 1985, or 1955?

Of course the occupational 'prestige' category is simply subjective and meaningless (if all your friends are specialists, you might think less of a mere GP, just as you might think you made the 'gravy' as an assistant Manager of the local Pep Boy) and one presumes included to weigh up or down statistical averages

But it is an attractive use of CSS/JS routines ;-)