tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post5795657592114725402..comments2023-11-03T03:52:37.873-05:00Comments on Cognitive Dissidence: MacIver Lied! Somebody DO Something!http://www.blogger.com/profile/08717747685928127724noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-34700588756952748132013-05-29T15:47:22.229-05:002013-05-29T15:47:22.229-05:00MacIver is just another right-wing funded, radical...MacIver is just another right-wing funded, radical, extremist organization. As a citizen of Wisconsin, I find them offensive. They lied? Doesn't surprise me in the least.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-53635202864624298972013-05-17T11:55:33.904-05:002013-05-17T11:55:33.904-05:00Good grief. The MacIver people sound like typical...Good grief. The MacIver people sound like typical Repubs who don't understand why you have to use seasonal variations to look at jobs numbers and are suspicious of seasonal adjustments, as if somebody is trying to pull the wool over their eyes. <br /><br />Every January, the brainwashed GOP sympathizers on the national level go nuts gloating about how many jobs have been lost in January... Well, duh. It happens every January. Over two million jobs are lost nationally as holiday help is laid off after Christmas.<br /><br />BLS jobs numbers are queried as of the week containing the 12th of the month, not the last day of the month. Walker took office January 3rd, 2011. Employment numbers for January represent the week after he took office. Therefore, January 2011 numbers are probably the best starting point for Walker as he was only in office one week when those numbers were gathered. <br /><br />But the biggest issue is using data that is not seasonally adjusted.. Such data is meaningless. Statisticians are on the government payrolls to make sure that seasonal adjustments are adequate to give all of us the best estimation of how we are doing in jobs from month to month without waiting for a whole year to go by.<br /><br />Just looking at the latest "official" seasonally adjusted jobs numbers: Wisconsin lost 7,000 jobs over the past year, and 24,000 jobs over the last month, since March. <br /><br />The problem is that wayyy too many people in this country have no idea of the basics of job counting and can be convinced of anything. Middle Mollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11441441493867436577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5888314760091661875.post-83565396507643855642013-04-17T15:43:12.188-05:002013-04-17T15:43:12.188-05:00MacIver Lied?!?!? What a shock! MacIver Lied?!?!? What a shock! LOPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01192046453871221592noreply@blogger.com