OK cabbage patch, lets play, since I assume Quora wants us to get our sadistic bromance out of the way…

An open letter: Our Quora interaction takes out our sexual frustration

Dear Pichael Micer,

Thank you for yet again filling my house with your garbage excuses in defence of your indefensible behaviour in the EU referrendum. As someone who studied quantum physics at Master level (allegedly) you’d expect someone like you to have the mathematical nous to work through the evidence.

Instead, you chose to swallow the tripe way way too easily. And frankly, I’m jealous that you can swallow theirs, but not swallow mine. I keep calling you out on your percentages, your figures Mr Micer, yet you continue to swallow down whatever is put in front of your face.

BS Percentages

Reasoning with percentages is BS. There is an obvious reason why. GDP is a measure (not the only measure) of economic output. Since 1970 the thing that has single-handedly changed economic output was the manufacture of products in China and the far east and the move of manufacturing there. Pretty obvious, even by drawing lines on your alt-fact pornography that you keep fapping onto our walls.

In any event, even if you didn’t know the cause, what you have done is give in to the temptation of a covariate position, which is bad science if nothing else. You claim science as a religion, yet exhibit the utmost hypocrisy to lay in bed with pseudo-scientific babble such as this.

The other shapes you chase so hard. Your “other ones”, GDP per capita growth (measured as a percentage effect against the dollar baseline data). You’ll note the decline in the UK’s position from the high of around 8.5 on the growth rate, started in around 1965. Want to know what else happened around that time? Look at the graph of

What happened in 1967? This

BBC ON THIS DAY | 19 | 1967: Wilson defends ‘pound in your pocket’

It was a deliberate devaluation of the pound by Harold Wilson’s government. Dropping their values like the hussy you’re currently chasing.

Why does this matter? GDP would be higher (if people believe your tripe)? Not so fast!

In the 60’s, the value of the UK economy was:

What does this tell us? That the GDP growth rate “benefit” was both short lived and not that impressive even with devaluation, which you would expect anyway, since:

Together with the exchange rate between the dollar and Sterling, and, crucially, the other part of this equation, the population rate of change. The derivative of this thing.

Stagnant and even reduced 1970–1980, during the steepest part of your graph’s drop. Immigration? Is it fair to blame them? F**k no!

Letting someone else into our house, wasn’t the cause of the drop. We were not part of the EU neighbourhood when you dropped your pants mister and entered (we accessed in 1973) and although you could infer that the UK and EU are correlated from this seductress:

At no point can you revoke the existence of the covariate of manufacturing, nor can you revoke this covariate either:

Which is the single biggest factor in the rise of East Asian market percentage increases.

Our beloved EU cannot hope to compete on a price point. To prostitute itself to get US manufacturing money, like we now have to do, in our homeless state and red dresses. Also, GDP is measured in dollars. Devaluation of the pound increases exports, but reduces UK GDP by the value of the exchange rate.

And this is just to start.

You Player!

Did I call out a faker? A player? A cheat? I have, haven’t I? Get your stuff…

The graph you show is the percentage share of GDP of each region, harmonised relative to World GDP. If everyone had the same share as before, then they would have straight lines, flatness, in this graph. We don’t.

Relative to the US you say? Pah!

Despite your protestations, it isn’t relative to the US. If it was relative to the US, the USA would be a totally straight line. It isn’t and it it isn’t relative to anything else, except the world GDP.

So we ask, where did the aggregate trade figures go? Everything else is pretty much static, bar the Asian and EU regions. The USA remained static as a contributor to world wealth.

Just because the dollar is the base currency, doesn’t mean GDP of countries changes, without a change in their base currency (such as Sterling’s devaluation). Let me spell it out for you.

Say US GDP is $15 tn to make the arithmetic easy. This would put the USA “average line” as a straight line. If Asia was £13tn and the EU $17tn, the split would be:

33% US
29% Asia
38% EU

US rises by 10% (to $16.5tn). Asia grew their GDP by 30% ($16.9tn), and the EU remained static ($17tn), assuming the US was a straight line, then there would result in percentages:

33% Asia
33% USA
33% EU

But the EU economy hasn’t dropped like your pants and your argument, in terms of total value, which is even a caveat you should have put on your graph! But you chose not to (note, it certainly isn’t the only thing wrong with your logic).

If we drew this into a graph, The USA would be flat at 33% (note, still not relative to USA), Asia would be up with m=1.14 and EU would be down with m=0.88 (note, 1/1.132 <- That is the key value. That’s where the percentage went!).

You can’t keep running by throwing excuses at folk, Mr Micer. This may work round where you live, or where your besotted mistress be, who is charmed by your way with words but you’re now in a different league. Some of us have class. Not in my house! Game? Up it!

E