{"items": [{"author": "Ben", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/657394299432?comment_id=657398530952", "anchor": "fb-657398530952", "service": "fb", "text": "Every time someone posts a table of numbers that begs to be a chart, I shed a single tear. I cannot spend too much time on the internet or I become dangerously dehydrated.", "timestamp": "1398711996"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/657394299432?comment_id=657398595822", "anchor": "fb-657398595822", "service": "fb", "text": "@Ben: This table doesn't even deserve to be a chart.", "timestamp": "1398712059"}, {"author": "Ben", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/657394299432?comment_id=657400756492", "anchor": "fb-657400756492", "service": "fb", "text": "That is true as well. However, I would prefer a correct table rendered as a chart rather than averages, because averages elide interesting dimensions. (For example, the gradient of pay scale might skew reasonableness of pay between two distributions even if the averages are identical).
Your treatment is still superior to the given table, though.", "timestamp": "1398713102"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/657394299432?comment_id=657401335332", "anchor": "fb-657401335332", "service": "fb", "text": "@Ben: \"I would prefer a correct table rendered as a chart rather than averages\"
So would I. An x-axis of \"years of experience\" and a y-axis of pay, for representative school districts, would be pretty good.", "timestamp": "1398713336"}, {"author": "David", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/657394299432?comment_id=657555666052", "anchor": "fb-657555666052", "service": "fb", "text": "Good points! For example, the parts of VA that are near NC are very different from the parts of VA that are DC suburbs or are (as shown on the map) Richmond.", "timestamp": "1398784216"}, {"author": "Ben", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/657394299432?comment_id=657557033312", "anchor": "fb-657557033312", "service": "fb", "text": "I would accept a dataset of \"degree, years experience, pay, school district\" for the extant teachers and just compare those. Given that these credentials and the union agreements are usually public, there should not be privacy concerns for individuals (to my knowledge) and this would circumvent all the hackish calculation the districts are doing. Regardless of how the agreements vary, I only care about net numbers anyway.", "timestamp": "1398785061"}, {"author": "Boris", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/657394299432?comment_id=657591534172", "anchor": "fb-657591534172", "service": "fb", "text": "I hear New Jersey is one of the highest starting salaries for teachers. Mine was $47,000 first year (I had a Master's Degree in Education).", "timestamp": "1398801660"}]}