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Tag: Historical methodology

Viral history is not always accurate

Two-panel bar chart comparing wealth distribution in France 1760–90 with the United States in 2016, annotated with a cut-out of Robespierre asking 'What have you done with 250 years of progress? This?'

I went back to the original study behind a widely shared graph on inequality in pre-Revolutionary France to see whether the numbers actually support what the graph claims.