February 11, 2013

Real-estate stories: a comparison

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Both the Herald and Stuff have stories based on the latest release from Quotable Value. The stories are pretty similar, though the Herald has speculation about the impact on the Reserve Bank rate setting.

Good points:

  • The Herald links to the original media release
  • Stuff points out that prices are still not above the 2007 peak when inflation is taken into account. This isn’t in the media release, but it’s not rocket science and it’s good to see reporters doing it.

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »