Rational concerns about economic data

alexy · 2003-07-11T18:02:50+00:00

Those of us who mock the conspiracy theorists are seen by the samesmall minds as thinking the current system is perfect. Far be thatfrom the case. This article in the NYT does a pretty good job ofdiscussing concerns about economic data. It even includes a rationaldiscussion of how political pressures likely influence the data.I'm sure there are those who will say that this article is pro-H-1B,since it doesn't propose calculating the unemployment rate as thenumber of people with Social Security numbers divided by the number ofpeople with jobs (or one of the other IB suggestions). But for thosewho can read this article, it does a good job of identifying issuesthat the intelligent reader needs to be aware of in using thesestatistics. Those with limited cognitive ability will also find thisarticle interesting, since they will surely find one or two isolatedpoints that they can glom onto out of context.

Jul 11, 2003 41 Replies

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charlieb 16 years ago

Very very late to this one but had to commend all who participated in this certainly amusing, and creative thread.

CHECKED to make sure I hadn't SPLIT a gut after CRACKING . You folks are really TWISTED but I BOWED to your worsmith skills after I SAW the w here this one went off the tracks. I'm going to TEAR OUT this one and file it away.

You guys BLO me away with your WARPED minds.

Now if someone could just work DAMHIKT into a response . . .

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Gerald Ross 16 years ago

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