Giving no ‘weighting’ to the individual items is not a neutral approach - it is a judgement that all the items on the list are of equal importance and that this is true for all of the countries being compared. A personal computer, for example, was originally included in a list of necessities proposed by the European Union but subsequently dropped when it was shown that only 30% of the population considered a computer to be ‘absolutely necessary’ or ‘necessary’.71" If the poll had been conducted among young people, as opposed to the population as a whole, it is reasonable to suppose that a much higher proportion would have categorized a computer as a necessity. First, both the child deprivation measure and the relative income measure must confront the question of where and how the threshold should be drawn.