Re:1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wag...
by donw on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:28AM
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> But what if the historical baseline has always been misleading, and undercounting a problem?
Then you create a new metric, but keep the old one around for historical baselines.
By the way, this is what the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is doing with the various unemployment metrics.
> The point of redefining unemployment is to get a more accurate view of it, whereas this redefinition of murder gives a less accurate and completely pointless view of the problem.
I see you are new to politics.
But what if the historical baseline has always been misleading, and undercounting a problem?
> Simply redefine "murder" to mean "persons killed by a woman wearing a blue hat on the third Tuesday of February".
This isn't a useful example, because the point of redefining unemployment is to get a more accurate view of it, whereas this redefinition of murder gives a less accurate and completely pointless view of the problem.