{"id":88180,"date":"2024-08-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88180"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T12:12:40","slug":"the-fine-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88180","title":{"rendered":"The Fine Print"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Klink and other state officials are fond of trumpeting &#8220;studies&#8221; that seem to come out weekly, telling us Minnesota is <em>doing just great<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Klink&#8217;s enforcer, Keith Ellison, did it the other day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovTimWalz<\/a>\u2069 state:  \u201cA recent study shows that Minnesota is ranked sixth in the nation for business, with high marks coming from areas judging the state&#39;s competitiveness, workforce\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/88fkdz8iiR\">https:\/\/t.co\/88fkdz8iiR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Keith Ellison (@keithellison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithellison\/status\/1825236852585943478?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Figuring that this observation contradicts everything our lying eyes are gelling us about realiity around us, I figured I&#8217;d click through to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/minnesota\/news\/minnesota-is-ranked-6th-in-the-nation-for-business-a-new-study-finds\/\">read the actual study<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>CNBC scored all 50 states on 128 metrics in 10 broad categories of competitiveness. Each category is weighted based on how frequently states use them as a selling point in economic development marketing materials. That way, our study ranks the states based on the attributes they use to sell themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So, it weights\u00a0<em>the\u00a0 quality of states&#8217; sales pitches?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And apparently subjective weighting counts for a lot, since Minnesota came in fourth place for &#8220;quality of life&#8221; (measured how?) but 35th for &#8220;cost of doing business&#8221; and 24th for &#8220;economy&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It appears to be a measure of a state&#8217;s commitment to happy talk.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Klink and other state officials are fond of trumpeting &#8220;studies&#8221; that seem to come out weekly, telling us Minnesota is doing just great. Klink&#8217;s enforcer, Keith Ellison, did it the other day: Figuring that this observation contradicts everything our lying eyes are gelling us about realiity around us, I figured I&#8217;d click through to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88184,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88180\/revisions\/88184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}