The Gilded Age refers to the last several decades of the 19th century, and yet the article compares today's data to 1928. That would be "the Roaring Twenties."
Misusing the term Gilded Age is becoming more prevalent recently within the inequality narrative. I'm guessing The Gilded Age was shown to produce more clicks and why let facts get in the way of clicks
Yeah bro Buzzfeed is totally doing AB tests on Article Headlines about Income Inequality.
They almost certainly are. Buzzfeed didn't become synonymous with clickbait by random chance. It literally spun out of a research lab studying the viral spread of online content.
Why don't you go find out how many articles they have written about inequality and tell me how the statistical power of their AB test looks. lol