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That last one about unemployment isn't from the realm of checkable facts because the data are vast enough to be difficult to verify, and because the definition
by rdiddly 10y ago
That last one about unemployment isn't from the realm of checkable facts because the data are vast enough to be difficult to verify, and because the definition of unemployment isn't settled or universally agreed. And you can't rely on government figures to overcome the first problem, because of the second. ("Official" definitions of unemployment are swayed by political motivations and are known to under-report certain kinds of unemployment that legitimately should be counted.)
- fatbob 10y agoAn alternative way of doing this might be to annotate the story with which measures of unemployment the speaker must be talking about.