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> I've never met a single person willing to attest to filling out a BLS survey. Unless you have introduced yourself with this question to thousands of people,
by jeffbee 7mo ago
> I've never met a single person willing to attest to filling out a BLS survey.
Unless you have introduced yourself with this question to thousands of people, this is a totally meaningless statement. It says more about your social circle, your grasp of descriptive statistics, and the weird online stew you are soaking your brain in than it says about the CPS.
- salawat 7mo agoI never complained about the Current Population Survey. Census Bureau does a great job. I complain about BLS. And yes, I'm the odd fellow who does, in fact, talk about weird niche 'work' minutiae with people because I'm actually curious how the world works, and whether our "authoritative metrics" are actually worth a damn. My grasp of descriptive statistics is just fine, thank you very much, but I also happen to know it doesn't work if you're not actually collecting data, and if the data you're collecting is incomplete, you're doing what is essentially inferential statistics (assuming your whole is entirely represented by what you have collected. If you don't check, you don't bloody know. If you actually are checking, it's not normally that hard to find the population you're checking with.