John Smith I wrote:
wrote:
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However, if you take into account all who are looking for work AND those
drawing unemployment, that figure becomes closer to 1 in 5.
I am highly suspicious that those amateur statistics may be manipulated
in much the same way--although I have no figures here to the contrary of
what is listed or even why such manipulations would be done ... I just
have a naturally suspicious nature ... been burnt by my gov't one to
many times.
Regards,
JS
I am familiar with the saying "figures don't lie,but liers can
figure.And I can believe what
you say about the unemployment figures being suspicious. The pols
certainly have plenty to gain by keeping those figures low. But what
would be the point of skewing the amateur
statistics. I don't understand what the payoff would be to manipulate
them on purpose.
I admit when talking about numbers and stats I tend to have bouts of
dumb attacks.
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KC9IRR