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A man walks into a conversation with a statistic the way some people walk into a bar fight: not to learn anything, but to leave with a trophy. He doesn’t say “Hello.” He says, “Mississippi has higher GDP per capita than France and the UK.”

Pause for applause. Somewhere, a spreadsheet blushes.

The trouble is that GDP per capita is the kind of number that makes you feel informed while … Read the rest