Has the US economy improved over the past year?

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Re: Has the US economy improved over the past year?

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-1- wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:32 am
FlashDangerpants wrote: Mon Feb 05, 2018 8:07 pm
Others are liable to be found claiming non work benefits for invalidity.

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How do you validly claim invalidity so your invalidity claim is not invalid? But you are?

That's A. B. is that the chart is meaningless. It created a smoothish-looking curve by fudging the coordinates. I have seen it all, but I haven't seen this type of lie. The scale on the right goes up in equal distances, as expected, "2", "4", "6", and then surprisingly a "5" chimes in, instead of an "8",then it continues... bah.
Other than the very trivial typo - that isn't a big deal given how easily you recognised the correct number to be 8 - that graph is perfectly ok, they've cited their source which publishes the numbers online if you want to check. If I'd got it from The Economist or Bloomberg I imagine they would have been more explicit about which scale referred to which stat. But only the hopelessly stupid can't work that out too.
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Re: Has the US economy improved over the past year?

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FlashDangerpants wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:37 pm
-1- wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 2:32 am How do you validly claim invalidity so your invalidity claim is not invalid? But you are?

That's A. B. is that the chart is meaningless. It created a smoothish-looking curve by fudging the coordinates. I have seen it all, but I haven't seen this type of lie. The scale on the right goes up in equal distances, as expected, "2", "4", "6", and then surprisingly a "5" chimes in, instead of an "8",then it continues... bah.
Other than the very trivial typo - that isn't a big deal given how easily you recognised the correct number to be 8 - that graph is perfectly ok, they've cited their source which publishes the numbers online if you want to check. If I'd got it from The Economist or Bloomberg I imagine they would have been more explicit about which scale referred to which stat. But only the hopelessly stupid can't work that out too.
Touche.
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