{"id":31028,"date":"2012-10-12T05:30:44","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T10:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31028"},"modified":"2012-10-12T06:38:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T11:38:09","slug":"obfuscation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31028","title":{"rendered":"Obfuscated In Plain Sight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n

Looking at this chart, you might think non-farm employment has returned to pre-recession levels. No, the left side (Y-axis) measures CHANGE in jobs.<\/p>\n

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In other words, we\u2019re no longer losing 7 million jobs per year as we did in 2009, we\u2019re adding a million or so per year. But we\u2019re nowhere close to where we were before the whole thing tanked.<\/p>\n

Charts are supposed to make data EASIER to understand, to REDUCE confusion. What this one does is exactly the opposite. Since the guy releasing the chart is a Nobel Prize winning economics professor as well as a big Obama supporter, I have to wonder why.<\/p>\n

Hat tip: http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/page\/2?layout=blog<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p>\n

Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll quibble with Joe on one point.<\/p>\n

Charts are supposed to make data…serve a purpose. \u00a0Usually, that purpose is “make it easier to understand”, it’s true. \u00a0But by no means always.<\/p>\n

In this case, the Administration is using them to conceal facts in plain sight, and gull the low-information voter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: Looking at this chart, you might think non-farm employment has returned to pre-recession levels. No, the left side (Y-axis) measures CHANGE in jobs. In other words, we\u2019re no longer losing 7 million jobs per year as we did in 2009, we\u2019re adding a million or so per year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31031,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions\/31031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}