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To: Sir Napsalot
I think I can explain it by drawing an analogy with my field, science. There's something in science called Headline Science which is largely what you see in the media. Grand pronouncements which are often not true, not backed by valid research, or making vast generalizations from some small fact demonstrated by a study.

In reality, studies are generally small, intentionally limited in scope, designed to illuminate one piece of a much larger puzzle. This is how scientific rigor is maintained. Thus, the words that are used may sound like they mean something to the general public, but the specific meanings of each word may have implications understandable only by reading the whole paper, and maybe by having several years of reading papers, in order to understand the context.

Sooo... each of these economic numbers may have a specific meaning to economists that indicate something very specific. There are leading indicators, that predict what will happen 3 or 6 months in the future. There are lagging indicators, useful for some purposes, but only in hindsight - in other words current indicators predict what lagging indicators will do. That's why U-2, or new unemployment claims, which they make such a big deal of, may be helpful to some, but are certainly no indicator of the health of the economy, and especially not unless considered with all of the unemployment stats as a whole.

I don't know why I wrote all that.

19 posted on 05/31/2012 12:02:08 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Cheney/Rumsfeld 2012)
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To: ichabod1; All
I don't know why I wrote all that.

It would have been much easier for you to say we have a Muslim Traitor playing POTUS who is doing everything he can to destroy America

While

The presstitutes lie continuously to cover for their Muslim boy who is simply enabling the radical left to destroy America too.

Obama's Muslim buddies are destroying on purpose but the radical left is doing it because they are STUPID.

Americans look at the headlines and have no idea what is going on. Whether they read DU or FREEREPUBLIC, all they know is it ain't going well. Americans are the biggest fools in history.

28 posted on 06/01/2012 3:49:51 AM PDT by politicianslie (Obama: Our first Muslim PRESIDENT,destroying America $1 Trillion at a time! And America sleeps)
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