So perhaps economists need to work on this "comm" issue. At least the ones involved in government stats. "It's not their job" only if they actively make it not

So perhaps economists need to work on this "comm" issue. At least the ones involved in government stats. "It's not their job" only if they actively make it not their job. I ran into this with NASA. A NASA "scientist" insisted it was proper for them and their colleagues to ignore both valid and crackpot suggestions or questions on the rationale that "crackpots are gonna crackpot and they have limited time so the proper response was to just ignore everyone and everything except their (collectively) narrow research projects." - Which are each extremely specific and grounded in massive piles of internal assumptions as to what matters. There was zero interest in the idea that they were paid by the public and might want to improve their image now and then.