The commission had beenformed at the start of the Reagan administration to consider whether America, in the wake of the collapse of Bretton Woods, should move to sound money.
He really knew everything there was to know and in a certain sense was a person who did go native while at the same time wielding with an iron grip of authority power over the colonized other.
First, they explain that if a given variable is playing a role in affecting wellbeing then we should expect any change in that variable to correlate with the observed changes in wellbeing.
This interviewer was taking what was being said, thinking they fully understood the idea or comment, and unknowingly making it smaller than the person being interviewed had intended.