Talk:Hedonic regression

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This page needs a more general approach. Specifically end of this page focuses on real estate, but hedonic regression is actually a very general method.ValtteriRyhtilä (talk) 16:11, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

I'd like to see a defense of hedonics in here; while I am fairly familiar with the criticisms (I hang out and argue with Austrians, Libertarians, goldbugs, etc., on financial boards) I am not as familiar with the defenses. Shawn Pickrell 12:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't see much of the defenses or criticisms here. A single, poorly described criticism was levied then effectively erased by saying it was shown to be not true, (with a source that does not appear to support such a statement). 24.21.222.121 (talk) 23:59, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

In recent years there has been an unfortunate tendency among authors and publishers to substitute spell checkers for proof readers and copy editors. A spellchecker cannot point out a correctly spelled word that is meaningless in the context, it cannot tell when a word, e.g. an article, is accidentally written twice. It cannot correct syntax errors. It cannot compensate for missing words. It slows down my reading speed tremendously and is very irritating.

In other words, productivity went up and quality went down. It's utter non-sense in my opinion (and I do not belong to the Austrian School). So just like in traditional measures of inflation we are not talking about the same product and therefore still face the same problem. Funny thing, Greenspan who got a lot of mileage out of this emphasized the increase in quality. (Perhaps he couldn't conceive of quality - like house prices - going down.)

Furthermore, while IT increases productivity in many ways, it does not speed up the typing speed of the person entering data.

It was politically motivated in order to decrease social security payments etc which are indexed to inflation. I do not deny that measuring inflation especially over long time periods has its problems. But even in a static sense it has many problems and the official inflation rate does not apply to all people, or even all sectors of an economy. If rents and food prices, for example, rise much faster than the official rate of inflation the rate of inflation applicable to them is higher than the CPI. The supporters of this theory only decrease the rate of inflation, i.e. increase the value of GDP. In the traditional way decreases (i.e. deflation) are possible.

What I find most troubling is that there is alleged to be income without an increase in product. National income and national product are equal by definition, just like debits equal credits in bookkeeping.

If national product is understated - as the supporters of hedonics allege - where did the corresponding income go? With traditional measures of inflation the equation of income and product is preserved.

I've been hesitant for a long time to start such a discussion. So please show me where I went wrong if you disagree with my reasoning.

Gatorinvancouver (talk) 04:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

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