I 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, tal

I 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.