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> That disclaimer is primarily dissuading comparing a single year across countries, which is of course the entire content of the article. The data source (OEC
by em500 8y ago
> That disclaimer is primarily dissuading comparing a single year across countries,
which is of course the entire content of the article.
The data source (OECD) isn't blameless either: the default/main view of the data (https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm) shows exactly what their disclaimer says you shouldn't do.
- lucideer 8y agoThe content of the article looks at trends: it looks at productivity in countries tending to be at one end of the hours worked scale versus productivity of countries at the other. Comparing a Mexico and Costa Rica directly wouldn't work but looking at the tendency for those countries to trend toward one side of the scale does.
- em500 8y agoThose are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years. What the article does and what you're describing are cross-country comparisons in a single year, just at the opposing tails of the distribution.
- lucideer 8y ago> Those are not trends, which are comparisons for the same country over multiple years I think you may be choosing an arbitrarily narrow definition of the word "trend". A typical definition[0] is "an inclination in a particular direction" [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trend https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trend