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I see, so they don't capture that data well as they admit. household survey has a high margin of error. You have to also consider signal to noise ratio of some
by asdff 8mo ago
I see, so they don't capture that data well as they admit. household survey has a high margin of error. You have to also consider signal to noise ratio of some of these data and whether the survey even has the power to detect the signal. My grad school cohort for example was 15 people for the entire department. That is about as large as they get for PhD in most STEM fields. What are the odds this sort of employment sector is captured well in the household survey data?
- kasey_junk 8mo agoThis is perhaps the most well studied and validated data set that any government has ever produced. Their methodology and techniques are documented to the nth degree. "they" will admit whatever you want them to admit because they are stone cold professionals that are scrutinized by every political hack in the country and their datasets are poured over by teams of financial analysts across the globe every time they are released. You are an internet commenter that couldn't be bothered to read the summary of the article outlining some of the issues with their data collection, where the very first bullet point summary mentions its survey based. Perhaps you shouldn't try to argue from first principles without reading the _extensive_ documentation of methods and reports the BLS puts out. Lots of us have.
- asdff 8mo agoSo you are appealing to precedence and authority and not really addressing the underlying point being made.