"Ronald Raygun" wrote
That's why I didn't try to extrapolate anything from it!
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
That was not my intention at all - you've obviously read something extra into my comment which I didn't say.
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
Yep, of course. There could also have been two rises & two falls, or three rises and one fall. What are the chances that there was only *one* rise, and not more than one?
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
Of course; but if we are simply considering the mean price of houses being sold, then we *do* know that there was a rise.
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
Well, I wasn't implying it. I was only talking about the past.
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
I disagree. I say that it simply means it wasn't moving that way before. Ergo, it started the new movement. What it does after that wasn't stated.
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
Well, they could have either just started rising or already been rising. But I don't think they were rising previously, were they?!!
So the rise *did* just start (at least sometime in the month).