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https://archive.ph/A1AFw https://archive.ph/A1AFw > About 89.7 percent of men ages 35 to 44 were working or looking for work as of November, down sharply from
by the-printer 4y ago
https://archive.ph/A1AFw https://archive.ph/A1AFw
> About 89.7 percent of men ages 35 to 44 were working or looking for work as of November, down sharply from 90.9 percent before the pandemic. The group’s employment rate showed signs of rebounding last month, but has been unusually depressed on average over the past year.
I missed out on high school economics, so I am completely ignorant of whether I’m missing something here or someone wanted to speak to Paul Rizzo of Kenner, Louisiana really badly.
- jleyank 4y ago1% change is "sharply"? What's the measurement error in this percentage, and is it determined directly from a large mass of data, from statistical sampling of a large -> small pile of data or inferred from other information that was not included above? Similarly, what was the change month-by-month in 2018 or 2019, the effect of COVID (which should be the largest?) and the recovery from 2020?
- phendrenad2 4y agoThis is how journalism works. No matter how small an effect is, you can just call it "massive" or "stunning" or "unexpected" and people will read it and by the time they realize it's bullshit (if they ever do) you've absconded with their ad impression for a cool $0.001 of Google dollars.
- andromeduck 4y agoSeems pretty clear that it's massive relative to the pre pandemic trend - ~0.1% annual declines vs ~0.4%.